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Diplomatic Representatives in Istanbul and Ankara 1815-2010

Since the year of 1815 until today, Serbian deputies, who stayed only for a few months, were always presented in Istanbul (Constantinople). Although the nature of those deputations was not permanent, nor did they represent the official diplomatic mission, they still took a very good care of both Serbian interests and business.

List of deputies ( with the date when they left Serbia)

- Miloje Teodorović, Neofit (12.08.1815.)

- Milentije Nikšić, Aksentije Miladinović, Milovan Petrović, Petar Grčić (15.10.1815.)

- Jovan Obrenović, Vujica Veličković, Đorđe Popović-Ćeleš, Milovan Trifunović (20.06. 1816.)

- Sava Ljotić, Dimitrije Joksimović (25.05.1818.)

- Đorđe Popović-Ćeleš, Sava Ljotić, Pavle Sretenović, Hristo Dukić (15.04.1820.)

- Vujica Vuličević, Ilija Marković, Dimitrije Georgijević, Samuilo Jakovljević, Avram Petronijević(29.10.1820.)

- Lazar Teodorović, Ilija Marković, Atanasko Mihajlović, Avram Petronijević(17.01.1827.)

- Dimitrije Davidović, Stojan Simić, Lazar Teodorović (1831.)

- Obren Petronijević, Jakov Živanović, Jovanče Spasić (11.04.1838.)

Along with the Constitution of the Principality of Serbia and the accordance with the article 18, the function of Serbian deputy was introduced, as well as the Agency which was found at the same time. The most well-known deputy was Jovan Ristić, who later became Minister of Foreign Affairs and one of the founders of the modern Serbian diplomacy.

List of deputies

- Jovan Antić, 1839. - 1842.
- Aleksa Simić, 3.10.1842.
- Lazar Teodorović, 16.10.1843.
- Konstantin Nikolajević, 17.01.1850.
- Milan Petronijević, 07.02.1859.
- Jovan Ristić, 31.10.1861.

Agency became a diplomatic representation in 1869.

List of representatives

- Jevrem Grujic, 19.02.1869.
- Filip Hristić, 22.08.1870.
- Kosta Magazinović, 23.05.1874.

After gaining its independence, Representation became a Mission of the Principality of Serbia. In the year of 1882. the name was Mission of the Principality of Serbia, then in 1919. Mission of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and finally in 1929. became Mission of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Mission was closed during the First World War.

The list of extraordinary deputies and plenipotentiary ministers

- Filip Hristić, 01.11.1878.

- Jevrem Grujic, 01.02.1880.

- Stojan Novaković, , 18.09.1886.

- Sava Grujić , 10.09.1891.

- Jevrem Velimirović, 13.07.1893.

- Vladan Đorđević, 08.04.1894.

- Stojan Novaković, 27.11.1897.

- Čedomilj Mijatović, 11.02.1900.

- Sava Grujić, 30.09.1900.

- Đorđe Simić, 09.10.1903.

- Jakov Nenadović, 11.01.1907.

- Radomir Šaponjić, 14.02.1920

- Trajan Živković, 30.07.1922.

- Tihomir Popović, 08.06.1926.

- Jevrem Tadić, 31.12.1926.

- Tihomir Popović, 28.05.1929.

- Ljubomir Nešić, 05.06.1930.

- Miroslav Janković, 06.06.1932.

- Branko Lazarević, 23.07.1935.

- Branko Adžemović, 19.06.1937.

- Ivan Subotić, 28.03.1939.

- Ilija Šumenković, 20.05.1939.

By the decree dated on 23. 08. 1938. the status of the Mission of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was changed to the status of an embassy. The Ambassador was Ilija Sumanovic who served at that position until 20.08.1945.

- Arneri Rafo, 1945

- Božin Simić, 1945 - 26.05.1948.

- Selim Numić, 26.05.1948 - Mart 1949.

- Ljubomir Radovanović, 17.01.1949. - 19.09.1953.

- Mišo Pavičević, 19.09.1953 - 14.07.1955.

- Dragomir Vučinić, 14.07.1955. - 13.08.1958.

- Miloš Carević, 13.08.1958. - 31.01.1961.

- Dragoje Đurić, 31.01.1961. - 12.08.1964.

- Milić Bugarčić, 12.08.1964. - 01.10.1968.