Aleksandar "Aco" Apolonio (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Ацо Аполонио, sometimes written Apolonijo; 11 November 1916 – 2001) was a Serbian lawyer and politician who became the president of the self-proclaimed Dubrovnik Republic founded in October 1991.
[1] Apolonio was a resident of Dubrovnik and had served as a public prosecutor there.
[2] Apolonio was born on 11 November 1916 in Kamenari, near Herceg Novi to an Istrian Italian father and Montenegrin mother from Dubrovnik.
[2] The Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) withdrew from the area in May 1992, officially ending the republic.
Apolonio was also sentenced to 12 years in prison in Croatia.