Peter Ichko

Peter Ichko
Born circa 1755
Katranitsa (Pyrgi), Eordaia, Macedonia, Ottoman Empire, now Greece
Died 5 May 1808
Belgrade, Ottoman Empire, now Serbia
Occupation Diplomat, Merchant

Peter Ichko or Petros Ichkos or Itskoglu[1] (Bulgarian: Петър Ичко, Greek: Πέτρος Ίτσκος, Serbian: Петар Ичко or Petar Ičko), was a Serbian and Ottoman diplomat of Aromanian,[2][3][4] Greek[5][6] or Bulgarian[7][8][9][10][11] origin.

Biography

Peter Ichko was Macedonian born in the Aegean Macedonian village of Katranitsa, then in the Ottoman Empire (today Pyrgi, Vermio municipality, Kozani regional unit, Greece), a place with developed merchant traditions. He resettled to the North, managing his own commercial business. He worked as a Dragoman in an Ottoman diplomatic mission in Berlin and probably in Vienna. Peter Ichko settled in Ottoman Belgrade where toward the end of the eighteenth century he was a notable merchant. He closely collaborated with vezier of Belgrade Pashaluk Hadži Mustafa Pasha and according to some sources both of them were members of one masonic lodge.[12] After the return to power of the Jannisaries, he was forced in 1802 to move to Zemun, at that time a Habsburg frontier town.

During the First Serbian Uprising after 1804 he supported the insurgents. He rendered them some valuable advice thanks to his diplomatic and trade skills. Serbian leaders sent him as their representative in Constantinople where he managed to obtain for them a favourable 'Ichko's Peace'. Peter Ichko resettled in Belgrade as an honorary citizen but he died there soon after on 5 May 1808, probably poisoned.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Η προγονική ιστορία του Δήμου Βερμίου" (The anchestral history of Vermion Municipality), Chapter: "Η Ελληνική Επανάσταση δρα και στο Δήμο Βερμίου" (The Greek revolution acts also in the Vermion Municipality), Parthena Tsokturidou, Kozani Prefecture, Kozani 2002
  2. ↑ Д.Ј. Поповић, О Цинцарима, прилози питању постанка нашег грађанског друштва, Београд, 1927, с. 257.
  3. ↑ Српска породична енциклопедија; Народна књига, Политика НМ; 2007. године, књига 11, страна 72, ISBN 978-86-331-2740-0
  4. ↑ Encyclopedia of the stateless nations. Volume 1, A - C, James Minahan, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 0313321094,p. 177.
  5. ↑ Βλαχόφωνη Ρωμιοσύνη, Company of Macedonian Studies, Nicolaos Mertzos, Thessaloniki 2011, p. 31
  6. ↑ Οι Ελληνες πάροικοι του Σεμλίνου. 18ος-19ος αι. : διαμόρφωση της παροικίας, δημογραφικά στοιχεία, διοικητικό σύστημα, πνευματική και πολιτιστική δραστηριότητα, Ioannis A. Papadrianos, Institution of Balkan Studies, Thessaloniki 1988
  7. ↑ Leopold von Ranke. The history of Servia and the Servian revolution. London,1853, p. 109.
  8. ↑ Die europäische Türkei, Ami Boué, Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Éditeur F. Tempsky, 1889, s. 373.
  9. ↑ Эрнест Лависс, Альфред Рамбо, История XIX века, Том 2. Часть 2. Время Наполеона I. 1800-1815. гл. VII. Юго-Восточная Европа и християнские народы. 1792—1815 г.
  10. ↑ Bulgaria in the European cartographic concepts until XIX century, Atanas Orachev, Borina, 2005, ISBN 954-500-135-6, p 130.
  11. ↑ Bulgars and Jugoslavs: language-religion-traditions-political aspect-present conditions-conclusion, Yugoslavia. League of Nations Association, Éditeur Librairie slave, 1928, p. 22.
  12. ↑ Ćorović 1997
    Ima vesti, da su Mustafa i Ičko bili u tešnjim vezama i kao članovi jedne slobodnozidarske lože u Beogradu, kojoj je možda pripadao i Aziz efendija.

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