Filipović was commander of the Partisans' Tamnavsko-Kolubarski unit in Valjevo (modern-day Serbia) by 1941.
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Before the outbreak of the Second World War he lived in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kragujevac, Serbia, then both part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
Stjepan Mesić | Stjepan Vukčić Kosača | Stjepan Radić | Stjepan Bobek | Ognjen Filipović | Mirko Filipović | Zoran Filipović | Zlata Filipović | Teodor Filipović (a.k.a. Božidar Grujović) | Teodor Filipović | Stjepan Mestrovic | Stjepan Božić | Stjepan Babić | Herceg Stjepan Vukčić Kosača's |