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Ilija may refer to:
- Ilija, Iran, a village in Ardabil Province, Iran
- Ilija, Slovakia, a village and municipality in the Banská Štiavnica District, in the Banská Bystrica Region
- Ilija (given name), South Slavic given name
Ilija ( Cyrillic script: Илија) is a South Slavic male given name, cognate of Ilya/ Elijah.
It may refer to:
- Ilija Aračić, Croatian football player
- Ilija Arnautović, Slovene architect of Serbian origin
- Ilija Babalj, Bosnian Australian football player
- Ilija Bašičević, Serbian painter
- Ilija Batljan, Montenegrin Swedish politician
- Ilija Birčanin, Serbian nobleman
- Ilija Bozoljac, Serbian tennis player
- Ilija Crijević, Dubrovnik poet
- Ilija Čarapić, Serbian politician
- Ilija Dimovski, Macedonian politician
- Ilija Đukić, Serbian diplomat
- Ilija Garašanin, Serbian politician
- Ilija Gregorić, Croatian soldier
- Ilija Grgic, Croatian Australian football player
- Ilija Isajlovski, Macedonian diplomat
- Ilija Ivezić, Croatian actor
- Ilija Ivić, Serbian football player
- Ilija Janković, Serbian soldier
- Ilija Katić, Serbian football player
- Ilija Lupulesku, Serbian American table tennis player
- Ilija Lončarević, Croatian football coach
- Ilija Lukić, Serbian football player
- Ilija Milošević, Italian astronomer
- Ilija Mitić, Serbian American football player
- Ilija Monte Radlovic, Montenegrin British soldier and writer
- Ilija Najdoski, Macedonian football player
- Ilija Nestorovski, Macedonian football player
- Ilija Ničić, Serbian sport shooter
- Ilija Okrugić, Croatian writer
- Ilija Panajotović, Serbian film producer and tennis player
- Ilija Pantelić, Serbian football player
- Ilija Pejovski, Macedonian classical musician
- Ilija Perajica, outlaw from Dalmatia
- Ilija Petković, Serbian football player
- Ilija Prodanović, Bosnian football player
- Ilija Radović, Montenegrin football player
- Ilija Ristanić, Bosnian football player
- Ilija Sivonjić, Croatian football player
- Ilija Spasojević, Montenegrin footballer
- Ilija Stanić, Bosnian secret agent
- Ilija Stolica, Serbian football player
- Ilija Temelkovski, Macedonian handball coach
- Ilija Trifunović-Birčanin, Serbian soldier
- Ilija Trojanow, Bulgarian writer
- Ilija Zavišić, Serbian football player
Ilija (; 1318–22) was a Serbian nobleman that served kings Stefan Milutin (r. 1282–1321) and Stefan Dečanski (r. 1321–31) with the titles of knez (comes, count) and kefalija (governor). At the end of Milutin's reign (and life), Ilija governed Zeta (a crown land), instead of the Young King, Stefan Dečanski, who was held in Constantinople since 1314. He first held the title of knez (fl. 1318), and received the title of kefalija by 1321. There existed two types of kefalija in Serbia, local ones (as in Byzantium) and provincial ones; Ilija belonged to the latter. Ilija was a royal deputy.
The Republic of Ragusa paid a tax to the Kingdom of Serbia, called the "St. Demetrius income" (svetodmitarski dohodak). In a document dated 4 November 1318, the collectors were bishop Stefan of Skadar and knez Ilija of Zeta. He is mentioned in a document dated 23 September 1321, being ordered along with bishop Petar of Skadar to raise the income from Ragusa. He is mentioned in 27 October 1321, regarding bishop Petar, who was authorized by Stefan Milutin to travel to Dubrovnik, but was unable to. He is mentioned as Stefan Dečanski's minister in Ragusan documents dating to 24 August 1322.
His father Đuraš Vrančić served King Stefan Milutin (r. 1282–1321) with the court title of stavilac. His son, Đuraš Ilijić, served Stefan Dečanski, Stefan Dušan (r. 1331–55) and Stefan Uroš V (r. 1355–71), from 1326 until his death in 1362, with the title of čelnik ("head"), and governed Upper Zeta.