Bilećanka
Sign in to savethumb | right | Bilečanka slovensko "Bilećanka" (; ; ) is a Yugoslav song written in 1940 in a political prison camp in Bileća during the authoritarian regime of Prince Paul. The original Slovene lyrics were written by Milan Apih, a Slovene communist and teacher from Celje, who was imprisoned at the camp. It remained popular throughout Yugoslavia, and the song was also translated into Serbo-Croatian.
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thumb | right | Bilečanka slovensko "Bilećanka" (; ; ) is a Yugoslav song written in 1940 in a political prison camp in Bileća during the authoritarian regime of Prince Paul. The original Slovene lyrics were written by Milan Apih, a Slovene communist and teacher from Celje, who was imprisoned at the camp. It remained popular throughout Yugoslavia, and the song was also translated into Serbo-Croatian.
== Lyrics == {|class="wikitable" !Slovene original !Serbo-Croatian version !English translation |- style="white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:top;" |Sredi pušk in bajonetov, sredi mrkih straž Se pomika naša četa v hercegovski kras.
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