Background
He was born in the village of Brišnik near Tomislavgrad.
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Mijat Tomic
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As a child, Mijat was reputed to have been physically strong, a characteristic that was later proven in future battles. Mijat then fled to the mountain Vran, marking the beginning of his life as a hajduk. Facts about the life of Mijat Tomić were published in the 18th century book Cvit razgovora naroda i jezika iliričkoga aliti rvackoga (1747) by Franciscan priest, Filip Grabovac.
In reference to Tomić, Grabovac claimed that, following his death, "never existed a real hajduk like him nor will there ever be one".
Mijat Tomić died on or around 20 July 1656 (on the feast day of Street Elijah) in Doljani, a settlement near Jablanica in present-day Bosnia-Hercegovina. Many poems and legends are in the agreement that he was betrayed by his godfather, Ilija Bobovac.
A Venetian source about Mijat"s death states that there were more cheers in Sarajevo on the news of his death "than when news arrived about the capture of Baghdad" a few years earlier (1638). Hajdučka Republika Mijata Tomića, a self-proclaimed micronation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, is named after him.
