Jovan Mišković ( sr-cyr, Јован Мишковић; (

Negotin Negotin ( sr-cyrl, Неготин, ; ) is a town and municipality located in the Bor District of Southern and Eastern Serbia, eastern Serbia. It is situated near the borders between Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria. It is the judicial center of the Bo ...

, 18 July 1844 –

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, 2 November 1908) was a

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general, Minister of Defence, military theorist, writer and the president of

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Biography

Mišković was born in Negotin in 1844, and in 1865 he graduated from the Belgrade Artillery School. During Serbian-Turkish War of 1876–1877 he commanded the Čačak brigade and later on the Užice brigade. In the Second Serbo-Turkish War in 1877–1878, he was Chief of the Operational Department of the Supreme Command and the Timok headquarters. From 1878 to 1880 Miškovič was the new Minister of Defense, known for introducing a new formation and carrying out a partial reorganization of the Serbian army. From 1883 to 1885, he was the leader of the active army and its headquarters. Mišković was the commander In the Serbian-Bulgarian War of 1885, leading the

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division and participating in the

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and the fighting around

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. He was appointed the Chief of the Serbian General Staff from 1888 to 1890. Jovan Mišković was a regular member of the Serbian Scientific Society of Serbia and the Mathematical Committee and later on a regular member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1908, and its president in one term. He wrote many articles from the history of wars,

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and

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and translated several works from French. He also held the post of president of The

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from 1896 to 1897 when he was succeeded by General Stevan Zdravković. He married a daughter of

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and they had two sons. Mišković was considered to be one of the most educated Serbian officers of his time as well as an example of high

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standards and

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Works

He traveled throughout Serbia and gave descriptions of many areas. * "History of Serbia" (1880), * "From the War of the Serbs with the Turks" (1882, 1883) * "Serbian Army and Warfare during the Uprising of 1804–1815. year (1895) * "Travel to Serbia" (1874) * "Hydrography of the Independent Principality of Serbia" (1880) * "Through Bosnia, Herzegovina and Boka Kotorska" (1897) * '' Description of the Mining District'' (

1872 Events January * January 12 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ruler crowned in that city in over 500 years. *January 20 – The Cavite mutiny was an uprising of Filipino military personnel of Fort S ...

) * "The war of Serbia with Turkey 1877–1878" (1879) * "From the Knjazevac district" (1881) for the purpose of getting to know the terrain of a military-strategic karaktear with a geographic-topographic image is considered the first work of a scientifically-scientific character about this region, whose author is not a foreigner. * "Two old churches in Knjazevac district", with descriptions of the monastery of the Holy Trinity near Donja Kamenica and the Church of the Holy Mother of God, Donja Kamenica, published in the Star of the Serbian Archaeological Society * "Some old towns and their surroundings in the Kingdom of Serbia", with a special accent on Ravnu and Koželj, published in the Star of the Serbian Archaeological Society

Orders and decorations

* Order of Miloš the Great I degree, (

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) * Order of the White Eagle III, IV and V degree, (Serbia) * Order of the Cross of Takovo I degree, (Serbia) * Order of the Cross of Takovo II degree, (Serbia) * Order of the Cross of Takovo with swords II and III degree, (Serbia) *

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I degree, (Serbia) * Golden medal for bravery, (Serbia) * Silver medal for bravery, (Serbia) * Medal for military merits, (Serbia) *Commemorative medal of the wars with Turkey 1876–1878, (Serbia) *Commemorative medal of the war with Bulgaria 1885, (Serbia) *

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, Knight's Cross (

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) *

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, (Austria-Hungary) * Order of Saint Alexander, I degree,

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, II degree, (

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) *Order of Saint Stanislaus, III degree, (

) *

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, II class (

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) *

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, Officer (

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) *Legion of Honour, Commandeur (France) *

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