Konstantin "Kosta" Magazinović (9 April 1819, Ruma,

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– 16 September 1891,

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) was a Serbian politician and diplomat, known for establishing Romania-Serbia relations and being one of the founders of a gun foundry in

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that became ''Zastava Arms''. He was one of the signatories of the Treaty of Bucharest on 20 January 1886. Kosta Magazinović was also the first diplomatic agent of the first Serbian diplomatic agency in

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, which was officially established in February 1863. Magazinović and the U.S. consul at

, Ludwig J. Czapkay, tried to initiate U.S.-Serbian official contacts in 1867 when Ottoman troops withdrew from Serbia, but it was done to no avail. In 1839, the first generation of learned Serbs born in Serbian lands (previously divided between the

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and the

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) was sent abroad for education on the state

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in order to train a 'local' bureaucratic and intellectual elite who had to substitute for the Serbs from Habsburg Vojvodina. Kosta Magazinović was among many chosen to study at the military academy in

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, but he arbitrarily went first to

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, then to

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to study philosophy and finally to

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where he enrolled into law school. There he met other Serbian Parisians such as Milan Simić,

Konstantin Cukić Konstantin "Kosta" Cukić ( sr-cyr, Константин Коста Цукић; 1826 – 1879) was an economist and minister of finance and education in the government of Prince Mihailo Obrenović. At the end of the nineteenth century, he was one of ...

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, and

Ljubomir Nenadović Ljubomir Nenadović (14 September 1826 — 21 January 1895) was Serbian writer, poet, translator, diplomat, minister of education and member of the Serbian Royal Academy. Family Ljubomir was born in Brankovina, Valjevo, Principality of Serbia ...

. Upon graduation, he returned to Serbia and joined the civil service. He wrote ''Memoari'' (Memoirs) where he tells the many experiences he had in his political and diplomatic career in Serbia and abroad during the 19th century. He was elected as the regular member of ''Društvo srbske slovesnosti'' (Society Of Serbian Letters: the forerunner of the Serbian Royal Academy) on 1 August 1848.

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