Jovan Hadži-Vasiljević

Hadži-Vasiljević was born in Vranje, at the time part of the Sanjak of Niš of the Ottoman Empire until it was captured by the Serbian Army in 1878.

His father was Hadži Vasilije of the Pogačarević family, and his mother Katerina was the daughter of the churchwarden (ikonom) of Kumanovo, Dimitrije Mladenović (1794–1880).

[1][better source needed] The Pogačarević family (also known as Pogačarci) hailed from Rakovac, having settled in Vranje at the end of the 18th century.

[3] As an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs he served from 1898 to 1904 in Bitola, Skopje and Belgrade.

[4] A bust was erected in the City Park of Vranje on 1 October 2012, at the 100th anniversary of the liberation of southern Serbia.