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Cincar Marko was born in 1777 in Dolna Belica, near Struga, from father Konstantin “Kosta” after whom he took his surname.
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He served as vojvoda of Soko nahiye and duke of Šabac, and was one of the leaders of the First Serbian Insurrection. Both of them were Slavs, not Aromanians (Cincars) but were nicknamed so when they moved to Serbia because of a large number of Cincars in this area as well as in Dolna Belica. Due to an uncertain incident with the Turks, Cincar Marko’s family moved had to flee to north Serbia where they settled in Valjevo where they were engaged in trade.
Cincar Marko joined the uprising against Ottomans from its very start.
He fought on the River Drina, stopping incursions from Bosnia. During the siege of Šabac he was at the head of bećari („lads“, men who still had no families).
He took part in the Battle of Mišar (1806) and one of the battles around Loznica. Earlier that year Cincar Marko accompanied Milenko Stojković and Milan Obrenović to Bucharest, in a diplomatic mission to the Danube command of the Russian army.
During the Insurrection Cincar Marko bought several shops in Valjevo.
After the crushing of the insurrection in 1813, Cincar Marko fled with other Serbian leaders across the Sava River to the Habsburg Empire. When the Second Serbian Uprising started in 1815, Cincar Marko returned to Serbia and took part in the Battle of Dublje in which he was wounded. After that he was sent by Miloš Obrenović, leader of the Uprising, to the Congress of Vienna to plead for Serbian autonomy.
That same year Miloš Obrenović made him the duke of Šabačka Posavina, with its center in the town of Šabac.
This duty he performed until his death in 1822. He was buried in the old town cemetery.
Cincar Marko’s grandson was General Dimitrije Cincar-Marković (1849–1903), chief of staff of the Serbian army, and his great-grandson was Aleksandar Cincar-Marković (1889–1947), diplomat and cabinet minister in interwar Yugoslavia.
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In July 1812 Cincar Marko became the vojvoda of Soko nahiye, which he defended during the Ottoman offensive in 1813.
