Radovan Miletić (Serbian: Радован Милетић (пуковник);

Požarevac Požarevac ( sr-cyr, Пожаревац, ) is a list of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative centre of the Braničevo District in eastern Serbia. It is located between three rivers: Danube, Great Morava and Mlava and below the hill Čač ...

Principality of Serbia The Principality of Serbia () was an autonomous, later sovereign state in the Balkans that came into existence as a result of the Serbian Revolution, which lasted between 1804 and 1817. Its creation was negotiated first through an unwritten agre ...

, 12 January 1844 –

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, 1919) was a Serbian army

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and

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. He fought in 1885 in the

Serbo-Bulgarian War The Serbo-Bulgarian War or the Serbian–Bulgarian War (, ''Srăbsko-bălgarska voyna'', , ''Srpsko-bugarski rat''), a war between the Kingdom of Serbia and the Principality of Bulgaria, erupted on and lasted until . Despite Bulgaria's statu ...

, commanding the Timok Division in the rank of colonel under the leadership of

Milojko Lešjanin Milojko Lešjanin ( sr-cyr, Милојко Лешјанин; Lešje, Serbia, Lešje, 15 February 1830 – Belgrade, 15 February 1896) was a Serbs, Serbian military Officer (armed forces), officer and politician. He served as Ministry of Defence (S ...

. He also served as Minister of the Army of Serbia in the

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from 11 February 1891 to 7 May 1891. He was succeeded by Jovan Praporčetović. Radovan Miletić was born on 12 January 1844 in Požarevac. He completed his undergraduate degree at Visaka škola and military schooling at the Military Academy before pursuing further studies in

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, where he graduated from the Geography Department in 1872. In 1880, the Ministry of National Economy founded a commission to establish a Geography Department in the headquarters of the

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under the direction of Staff Colonel Radovan Miletić who performed the first topographic survey of the entire

from 1881 to 1892 with a team composed of customs officer Kosta Stefanović, engineers Miša Marković and Svetozar Zorić of the Ministry of Engineering. From 23 February 1891 Colonel Radovan Miletić and

Andra Nikolić Andra Nikolić (Belgrade, Principality of Serbia, 5 October 1853 — Paris, France, 28 September 1918) was a Serbian politician, jurist, writer, literary historian and academic. Biography His parents were Josif Nikolić, a municipal clerk, and ...

were elected ministers in the cabinet of Nikola Pašić until 22 August 1892. Radovan Miletić in his career held the posts of Chief of Staff, Colonel of the General Staff, Chief of the Geographical Department, Chief of the General Staff. He died in 1919 as a retired politician and officer.

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