Background
Nedić was born in 1875, in the village of Strugovo near Bitola, in the Ottoman Empire (now R Macedonia).
Nedić was born in 1875, in the village of Strugovo near Bitola, in the Ottoman Empire (now R Macedonia).
He received his nickname Ćela (slang for "head"), due to his Typhoid fever that left marks on his head He joined the Bulgarian-organized Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) as a fighter in the bands of Georgi Sugarev and Gligor Sokolović. He participated in the Ilinden Uprising.
He joined the Serbian Chetniks in 1903, and in 1905 he and Jovan Babunski cross the Vardar for the Veles region.
He participated in the battles of Oreška Livada and Kurt"s Stone near Krapa (1905). He was an active fighter in the Balkan Wars and the First World War (1912-1918), then after the Serbian liberation he became a municipality president in his home village, a post he held until his murder.
He was murdered in 1923 by a Bulgarian nationalist agent.
