Jovan Ćirković

Jovan Ćirković
Jovan Ćirković
Born	1871 Pljevlja, Ottoman Empire (now Montenegro)
Died	1928
Allegiance	Serbian Chetnik Organization (1903–08)
Years of service	1903–08
Rank	Voivode (Vojvoda)
Battles/wars	Macedonian Serb Struggle

Jovan Ćirković (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Ћирковић; 1871 – 1928), known as Čifa (Чифа) or Ćirko-paša (Ћирко-паша), was a Serbian teacher, revolutionary (Chetnik) during the Macedonian Struggle, and politician.

Life

Ćirković was born in Pljevlja, Ottoman Empire (now Montenegro), into a Serbian Orthodox family. He finished primary school in his hometown. He graduated from the Teacher's College of the Society of Saint Sava in 1891, and worked as a teacher in the surroundings of Pljevlja, in Kumanovo, Tetovo, Skoplje, Veles and Prilep. He was also a superintendent and inspector of Serbian schools in the Manastir Vilayet (Bitola). Since 1901 he was secretary of the Patriarchatic Veles-Debar bishop Polikarp.

In 1903, he and Aleksa Jovanović-Kodža established the Bitola Board of the Serbian Chetnik Organization, in which he would have the task of forming, supplying, managing and coordination of Serb bands (četa) in the Bitola Vilayet. After the Young Turk Revolution (1908), he became the president of the Serb National Board of the Manastir Vilayet, a post he held until 1910 when he was appointed head of the Serbian National Office in Istanbul. After the Balkan Wars, he became the head of the Ohrid Oblast (region), and after the First World War, the head of the Oblast of Bitola (1918). He was a MP from 1920 to 1927 in the Bitola Okrug.

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  Jovan Ćirković and Vojislav Tankosić, mission to Kosovo, 1903

References

Sources

• Krakov, Stanislav (1990) [1930], Plamen četništva (in Serbian), Belgrade: Hipnos 
• M. Stanić. Uspomene na mitropolite sa kojima sam radio. Mihaila G. Ristića. p. 89. 

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Serbian Chetnik Organization
Commanders (1903–12)	Aksentije Bacetović-Baceta Borko Paštrović Boško Mitrović-Virjanac Doksim Mihailović-Debarac Dušan Dimitrijević-Dule Đorđe Ristić-Skopljanče Đorđe Cvetković-Drimkolski Gligor Sokolović-Nebregovski Ilija Trifunović-Birčanin Ilija Jovanović-Pčinjski Jovan Cvetković-Dolgač Jovan Stojković-Babunski Jovan Stanojković-Dovezenski Kosta Milovanović-Pećanac Krsta Kovačević-Trgoviški Lazar Kujundžić-Klempa Ljuba Jezdić-Razvigora Micko Krstić-Porečki Nikola Skadarac Pavle Mladenović-Čiča Petar Kacarević Petar Koćura Petko Ilić-Nagorički Rade Radivojević-Dušan Savatije Milošević Spasa Pavlović-Garda Sreten Rajković-Rudnički Todor Krstić-Algunjski Trenko Rujanović Vasilije Trbić Vojin Popović-Vuk Vojislav Tankosić-Voja Zafir Premčević
Fighters	Aleksa Komnenić Aleksandar Arsić Aleksandar Blagojević-Kočanski Aleksandar Simić Alimpije Marjanović-Ovčepoljski Anđelko Aleksić Anđel Đorđević Aranđel Bojković Arsa Gavrilović Atanasije Sredojević Blagoje Krušić Bogdan Jugović Hajnc Bogdan Kostić-Čačanin Bogdan Maksimović Bogdan Radenković Bogosav Srećković Branivoje Jovanović-Brana Boško Čupić Božin Simić Božin Teofilović Cene Marković Cvetko Vasić Čuma Danilo Stojanović-Dane Danilo Krapjanin Danilo Smiljković Dejan Jekić-Dragomir Denko Božinović Denko Dajlević Denko Kumanovče Denko Somov Dimitrije Dimitrijević-Mita Dimitrije Aleksić-Ditko Dončo Crnorijski Dragiša Kovačević Dragiša Stojadinović Dragoljub Džilić-Stric Dragoljub Urošević-Podrinac Dragoljub Nikolić Dragomir Protić Dragomir Vasiljević Dragutin Jovanović-Lune Dragutin Antić-Alavantić Dušan Hadži-Jovanović Dušan Savković Dušan Sekulić Đoka Živković Đorđe Cvetković-Drimkolski Đorđe Đerđiković Đorđe Sokolović-Kratovac Đorđe Vuković-Užičanin Đoša Beljanovče Đura Ivanišević Emilio Milutinović Jaćim Mladenović Jaćim Pavlović-Jaćko Joca Mirčić Jovan Božinović Jovan Grković-Gapon Jovan Naumović-Osogovski Jovan Pešić-Strelac-Topličanin Jovan Protić Josif Jovanović-Belocrkvanac Josif Katić Josif Mihailović Koce Janković Koce Krstić Lazar Simić Ljubomir Vulović Ljuba Jovanović-Čupa Manasija Nikolić Marko Ibler Mateja Šumenković Mihailo Bošković Mihailo Josifović Mihailo Jovanović-Brodski Mihailo Petrović Mihailo Ristić-Džervinac Milan Aleksić Milan Palanka Milan Popović Milan Štipljanče Milivoje Čolak-Antić Miša Aleksić-Marinko Nace Janković Naum Marković Nikola Jablaničanin Nikola Janković-Kosovski Nikola Lukić-Skadarac Omilj Glišić Pandilo Ćoreski-Drimkolski Panta Radosavljević-Dunavski Pavle Blažarić-Bistrički Petar Đinović Petar Maričić Petar Todorović-Pera Projče Virjanac Raško Anastasijević Rista Cvetković-Porečki Rista Kovačević Rista Petrović-Porečki Rista Popović-Beranac Rista Starački Sava Petković Sava Petrović-Grmija Sekula Vlahović Serafim Smiljanac Spasa Tanović-Metohijski Stamenko Stanišić Stevan Nedić-Ćela Stevan Simić Stevan Pavlović Stojan Koruba Svetozar Ranković-Toza Tasa Konević Temeljko Barjaktarević Todor Stojković Toma Krstić Trajko Brodski-Porečki Trajko–Koporan Čauš Trajko Prizrenac Vanđel Dimitrijević-Skopljanče Vasilije Kostić Velibor Trebinjac Velimir Prelić Velimir Vemić Veljko Petrović-Kičevski Vlada T. Milanović-Voskar Vladimir Kovačević-Vlada Maleški Žika Milosavljević Živko Gvozdić Živojin Balugdžić Živojin Milovanović-Žika
Key people	Milorad Gođevac Vasa Jovanović Golub Janić Jovan Atanacković Jovan Ćirković-Čifa Nikola Spasić Luka Ćelović Ljubomir Kovačević Ljubomir Jovanović Ljubomir Davidović Ljubomir Stojanović Žika Rafajlović Society of Saint Sava
Events	Fight on Šuplji Kamen (May 27, 1904) Fight in Tabanovce (March 27, 1905) Fight on Čelopek (April 16, 1905) Fight in Velika Hoča (May 25, 1905) Fight on Čelopek (1906) Young Turk Revolution (1908)
With the outbreak of the First Balkan War (1912), the organization was put under the supervision of the Serbian Army (see Chetniks in the Balkan Wars)