Petar Ičko Explained

Petar Ičko
Occupation:	Diplomat and merchant
Birth Date:	1755
Death Date:	5 May 1808
Nationality:	Rum Millet
Known For:	Representative of Serbian rebels during First Serbian Uprising; Ičko's Peace

Petar Ičko (Serbian: Петар Ичко, 1755–1808) was an Ottoman and later Serbian diplomat, a merchant by profession from Ottoman Macedonia. He is remembered for instituting Ičko's Peace, though of short duration.

Biography

He was of Aromanian descent,^{[1] [2] [3]} born in the village of Katranitsa, at the time in the Ottoman Empire (today Pyrgoi, Greece), a place with developed merchant traditions. He resettled to the north, managing his own commercial business, and was employed as a dragoman in Ottoman diplomatic missions in Berlin and probably in Vienna. Settling in Ottoman Belgrade towards the end of the 18th century, he became an affluent merchant. He closely collaborated with the Vizier of the Pashaluk of Belgrade, Hadži Mustafa Pasha, and according to some sources both of them were members of one Masonic Lodge. After the return to power of the renegade Janissaries (Dahije), he was forced in 1802 to move to Zemun, at that time a Habsburg Military Frontier town. After the outbreak of the First Serbian Uprising (1804), he began supporting and working with the Serbian rebels led by Karađorđe. He rendered them some valuable advice thanks to his diplomatic and trade skills. The rebel leaders sent him as their representative in Constantinople where he managed to obtain for them a favourable peace treaty, known as "Ičko's Peace". He returned and lived in Belgrade as an honorary citizen, but died there soon after, on 5 May 1808, probably poisoned.

His son Naum Ičko established the "Question-mark" bistro in 1823. His house is preserved today as "Ičko's House"

Annotations

He was surnamed Itskoglou (Ιτσκογλου),^[4] rendered in Serbian as Ičkoglija (Ичкоглија)^{[5] [6]} and Ičkoglić (Ичкоглић).

See also

• List of Serbian Revolutionaries

Sources

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• Traian Stoianovich. "The Conquering Balkan Orthodox Merchant", Journal of Economic History, XX (June, 1960), pp. 234–313.
• Book: Ćorović, Vladimir. Vladimir Ćorović. Istorija srpskog naroda . Почетак устанка у Србији. http://www.rastko.rs/rastko-bl/istorija/corovic/istorija/7_2.html. Ars Libri. 1997. December 7, 2012 .

Notes and References

1. Book: Даница Вукићевић. Симо Ц Ћирковић. Српска породична енциклопедија. 11. 2007. Народна кјнига. 72. 9788633127400.
2. Book: Д. Ј. Поповић. О цинцарима: прилози питању постанка нашег грађанског друштва. 1998. 1927. Прометеј. 978-86-82363-15-6. 257.
3. Βλαχόφωνη Ρωμιοσύνη. Company of Macedonian Studies. Nicolaos Mertzos. Thessaloniki. 2011. 31.
4. Book: Hellēnes kai Servoi kata tous apeleutherōtikous tōn agōnas, 1804-1830. 1936. Typois G.P. Xenou. Ό διαπραγματευθεις την σερβοτουρκικήν συνθήκην τοΰ 1806, ΓΙέιρος "Ιτσκος ή "Ιτσκογλου ήτο "Ελλην εκ Κατρανίτσης της Μακεδονίας. Ό "Ελλην μητροπολίτης Βελιγραδίου Λεόντιος άμα τή έκρήξει τοΰ κινήματος έτέθη παρά τό πλευρόν τών ....
5. Book: Béla K. Király. Gunther Erich Rothenberg. War and Society in East Central Europe: The first Serbian uprising 1804-1813. 1982. Brooklyn College Press. 978-0-930888-15-2. 196.
6. Book: Hristo Adonov-Poljanski. Documents on the Struggle of the Macedonian People for Independence and a Nation-state: From the settlement of the Slavs in Macedonia up to the end of the First World War. 1985. Kultura. 181.