Savatije Miličević Milošević (Саватије Миличевић Милошевић) was born in Pavlica, Raška, at the time part of the Ottoman Empire (today Serbia).

At the age of 25,[citation needed] Milošević murdered Pavle Jasnić,[2] a chief of a srez (municipality) in Raška, because of a blood feud, and joined the hajduks (brigands) with whom he was active in the Ottoman Empire.

He found refuge in Peć, Kosovo Vilayet, at the house of Albanian kachak Mula Zeka.

[3] When the authority started searching for him, he fled to the Principality of Montenegro where he befriended the Serbian emigreés Ranko Tajsić and prota Milan Đurić.

Together with Lazar Kujundžić and Živojin Milovanović he turned and went for Poreče, through Kosovo and Metohija and Podgora, in order to bypass Ottoman harassing in the Kumanovo region.