Dimitrije Cincar-Marković (

Šabac Šabac (Serbian Cyrillic: Шабац, ) is a city and the administrative centre of the Mačva District in western Serbia. The traditional centre of the fertile Mačva region, Šabac is located on the right banks of the river Sava. , the city p ...

, 6 September 1849 –

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, 11 June 1903) was a Serbian politician serving as the Prime Minister of the

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, army general, Chief of General Staff, professor of war history and strategy. As one of the closest associates of king Milan Obrenović from 1897 to 1900, he made a significant contribution to the great reform, enlargement, and promotion of the army of the

, which enabled its success in the Balkan wars. Dimitrije Cincar-Marković took steps to combat the revolutionaries of the

Bulgarian Exarchate The Bulgarian Exarchate ( bg, Българска екзархия, Balgarska ekzarhiya; tr, Bulgar Eksarhlığı) was the official name of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church before its autocephaly was recognized by the Ecumenical See in 1945 and th ...

who were terrorizing the Serbian population in

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and Macedonia. He brought the assassins of Grigoriy Schterbina to justice. He was killed in the May Coup of 11 June 1903. He was awarded

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, Order of the White Eagle,

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, Knight's Cross of the

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Order of the Medjidie Order of the Medjidie ( ota, نشانِ مجیدی, August 29, 1852 – 1922) is a military and civilian order of the Ottoman Empire. The Order was instituted in 1851 by Sultan Abdulmejid I. History Instituted in 1851, the Order was awarded in fi ...

, Commander of the

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, Serbian Golden and Silver Medal for bravery and other decorations and medals.

Selected works

* ''Uput za manevrovanje trupa'', Belgrade, 1885. * ''Uput za manevrovanje trupa'', Belgrade, 1897. * ''Vođenje trupa i služba po štabovima'', Belgrade, 1886. * ''Francuska stručna ocena nemačke konjice'', Belgrade, 1882, pp. 323.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cincar Marković, Dimitrije 1849 births 1903 deaths 19th-century Serbian people Politicians from Šabac Prime Ministers of Serbia Serbian diplomats Serbian generals Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Recipients of the Order of Franz Joseph Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Takovo Recipients of the Order of the Medjidie Foreign ministers of Serbia