During the First Serbian-Ottoman War (1876–77), the school served as the headquarters for the Serbian army, along with Russian volunteers, including Colonel Rajevski, who is better known as Vronsky from Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina.

The village was also the birthplace of Mike Milošević, a prominent member of the Serbian community in South Africa and the director of the famous "Montecasino" hotel in Johannesburg.

"[3] (> At the foot of the vine-covered heights of Prcilovica, where Anta Petrovic keeps a Latin inscription stone, stands the larger Aleksinac sign amidst many mehans.)

Beneath his hotel, a significant number of Roman coins were discovered and documented under the entry: Prćilovica, Gasthaus des Anta Petrović, Hof.

During World War I, his son, Milivoje Petrović, an only child, served in the Serbian army, enduring the Albanian Golgotha alongside King Peter I of Serbia and the then Prince Alexander I of Yugoslavia.

Meanwhile his father, Milivoje, would continue to serve in the war, fighting on the Salonika front and participating in multiple Serbian offensives to liberate Serbia.

Milivoje attempted a career in politics as a democratic candidate, losing an important election by a very slim margin and suffering financial ruin due to excessive loan guarantees (imenice), ultimately leading to the family going bankrupt shortly after the death of Anta.