Sofronije Jugović-Marković

Sofronije Jugović-Marković (fl. 1789) was a Habsburg Serb writer and activist in Russian service, who envisaged the formation of a Serbian protectorate of Russia (similar to Georgia), that would have held all South Slavic territories of the Habsburg stretching to Istria. Jugović sought to crown Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich "Serbian and Bulgarian Tsar Konstantin Nemanjić", after the medieval Nemanjić dynasty. It would continue the legacy of the Serbian Empire.[1]

Life

He was born in what is today Vojvodina, northern Serbia. In 1785, he was one of the inspectors in the controversial murder of metropolitan Petar Petrović.[2] In 1789 Ivan Radonjić, the governor of Montenegro, wrote for the second time to the Russian Empress Catherine II: "Now, all of us Serbs from Montenegro, Herzegovina, Banjani, Drobnjaci, Kuči, Piperi, Bjelopavlići, Zeta, Klimenti, Vasojevići, Bratonožići, Peć, Kosovo, Prizren, Arbania, Macedonia belong to your Excellency and pray that you, as our kind mother, send over Prince Sofronije Jugović."[3][4] In 1792, he publicly released his views in the work "Serbian Empire and State".[5]

See also

References
  1. Ivo Banac (1988). The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics. Cornell University Press. pp. 82–. ISBN 0-8014-9493-1.
  2. "Mitropolija Crnogorsko-primorska: Kratka istorija (Glava 3)". Archived from the original on 2011-09-16. Retrieved 2011-09-04.
  3. Vasilije Đerić (1900). O srpskom imenu po zapadnijem krajevima našega naroda. Štampano u državnoj štampariji. p. 9.
  4. Jovan Ilić, Dušanka Hadži-Jovančić, The Serbian question in the Balkans, p. 161, University of Belgrade, 1995
  5. Vasilije Krestić, Great Serbia: truth, misconceptions, abuses, p. 170, SANU, 2004



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