Marko Atlagić

Marko Atlagić
Atlagić at a conference in 2011
Born	1949 Yugoslavia
Occupation	Historian, politician

Dr Marko Atlagić (born 1949) is a Serbian historian and politician, originally from Croatia. He is one of the leaders of the Serbian Progressive Party and an expert on Historical Geography, Head of the Historical Department at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Priština in North Kosovska Mitrovica.

Education

Atlagić had received his PhD in Heraldry, studying heraldic elements in Medieval Croatia.

Activism and politics

In the early 1990s, he has joined up with the movement fighting for rights of the Serbian people in Croatia, deemed endangered. In 1991 he participated in Knin, a pan-Serbian meeting of the SAO Kninska Krajina as one of the speakers. As a member of the Serbian Radical Party for RSK, he was elected MP in the Parliament of the Republic of Serbian Krajina and in 1994 elected its vice-president after the SRS-dominated parliamentary majority was constituted. The government fell in late 1994, after which Atlagic resigned from the position of Deputy Speaker.

In 1995, Atlagić was Minister without portfolio in the last RSK government, under Milan Babić.^[1] After Operation Storm, he had been one of the ministers from 1995 to 2006 by the SRS-promoted Government of the RSK in Exile. In 2007, the SRS had crumbled and Marko Atlagić had supported the Tomislav Nikolić fraction as opposed to Vojislav Šešelj, becoming a member of the new Serbian Progressive Party's Presidency and assigned for Refugee and IDP problems.

In 2006, Atlagić testified at the trial of Slobodan Milosevic.^[1]

Works

• Grbovi plemstva u Slavoniji: 1700-1918, 1982.
• Razvitak heraldike u Srbiji, Priština 1997.
• Pomoćne istorijske nauke, Priština 1997.
• Istorijska geografija, Beograd 2001.
• Istorijska geografija, Beograd 2005.
• Pomoćne istorijske nauke u teoriji i praksi, Beograd 2007.
• Srpsko plemstvo i grbovi u Dubrovniku, Dalmaciji, Hrvatskoj i Slavoniji, Beograd 2009.

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