Draft:Aleksandar Bukvic

Aleksandar J. Bukvić (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Ј. Буквић; Skopje, Macedonia, then Ottoman Empire, 12 October 1878 - Skoplje, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1940) was a Serbian politician in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.[1]

Biography

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He was born in Skopje on 12 October 1878, in the family of Jovan Bukvić from Herzegovina and Marija Hadžistevkova Pančeva from a prominent Skopje founding family. He finished the Greek school, four grades in the Bulgarian gymnasium and as a scholarship holder of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, he studied at the Galatasaray Lyceum. After completing his studies, he entered the Faculty of Law at Visoka škola in Belgrade. From 1901 he worked for the Russian Consulate in Skopje, from 1908 he was a correspondent of the St. Petersburg Telegraph Agency.[1]

Bukvić was an active participant in the Serbian action in Macedonia. He was elected permanently as the president of the Serbian municipality of Skopje in 1908 and as such he welcomed during the First Balkan War in 1912 he welcomed the commander of the 1st Serbian Army Aleksandar I Karađorđević with bread and salt. [1] He was a member of the Central Committee of the Serb Democratic League, which was founded immediately after the Young Turk Revolution in 1908.[2]

After the collapse of the Serbian army in the First World War, he volunteered at the headquarters of the Russian division on the Thessaloniki front.[2]

After the establishment of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918, he engaged in trade in Skopje.[1] In the 1920 elections, he was elected president of the municipality of Skoplje. He was engaged in journalism. From 1927 to 1929, he published the Turkish-language newspaper Sadi i Milet (Voice of the People) in Skopje.[2]

Literature

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  • Митриновић, Чедомил М. (1931). Прво југословенско Народно претставништво изабрано 8. новембра 1931. године (in Serbian). Београд: Штампарија Ж. Маџаревић.
  • Михайлов, Иван (1958). Спомени: Освободителна борба, 1924-1934 г (in Bulgarian). A. Rossels printing Company. Retrieved 13 June 2021.

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