Career
A native of Drniš, of Croat and Serb descent, Adžija participated in World War I as a soldier in Austro-Hungarian Army. After the war and collapse of Austria-Hungary, in 1919 he became labour policy commissioner in local Zagreb government. Because of that he was often arrested, the last such occasion being in March 1941, only days before the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia.
The Ustaša authorities had Adžija shot - together with Zvonimir Richtmann, Otokar Keršovani and Ognjen Prica - as a retaliation for Partisan activity.
Adžija posthumously received the title of People"s Hero of Yugoslavia.