Peter Ichko

Petar Iko was an Ottoman and later Serbian diplomat, a merchant by profession from Greek Macedonia. Surnamed Itskoglou , according to some sources of Aromanian descent, was born in the village of Katranitsa, at the time in the Ottoman Empire , a place with developed merchant traditions. He resettled to the north, managing his own commercial business, and was employed as a dragoman in Ottoman diplomatic missions in Berlin and probably in Vienna. Settling in Ottoman Belgrade towards the end of the 18th century, he became an affluent merchant. He closely collaborated with the Vizier of the Pashaluk of Belgrade, Hadi Mustafa Pasha, and according to some sources both of them were members of one Masonic Lodge. After the return to power of the renegade Janissaries , he was forced in 1802 to move to Zemun, at that time a Habsburg Military Frontier town. After the outbreak of the First Serbian Uprising , he began supporting and working with the Serbian rebels led by Karaore. He rendered them s

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