Jovan Radonjić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Радоњић, 1748 – 8 July 1803), commonly known as Jovo (Јово) or Joko, was the guvernadur of Montenegro between 1764 and 1803.
[1] The young Jovan had the final word in that period in Montenegro; the Venetians, the Vizier of Scutari and surrounding Ottoman pashas and beys turned to him when something needed to be arranged.
[3] In February 1769, Russian Empress Catherine issued the order to count Aleksije Orlov to organize the planning of an uprising on the Balkans; his assistant was Georgije Dolgorukov, which was sent to Montenegro.
[3] In 1773, in the same month of the death of Šćepan Mali,[4] Mehmed Pasha Bushati attacked the Kuči and Bjelopavlići,[5] but was decisively defeated and returned to Scutari.
[16] Mahmud Pasha settled the promised war gift; he gave Milić and knez Martinović two flasks filled with Ottoman copper coins, and 10 ducats each for the service they had done for him.
[16] When the Pasha crossed Paštrovići at the Kašćela height near the church, Rade Andrović and his two friends approached and failed to assassinate him.
[16] In July 1788, he sent a letter to Queen Catherine II: "Now all of us, Serb Montenegrins, ask Your Imperial Grace to send Sofronije Jugović to us".
Shortly before his death, Jovan purchased a printing press in Vienna and hired an Austrian to educate the Montenegrins in using it.
Иван-Јово- Јоко Радоњић изабран за гувернадура Црне Горе од Народне скупштине на Цетињу 1764 године.Петровић и гувернадур Јован Радоњић, два прва црногорска главара, један по звању, а други по стварном положају.
Организујући отпор против аустријског утицаја у својој земљи за ...... под Мартинићима и 22 септембра исте године у Крусима, недалеко Под- горице, половином црногорске војске командовао владика Петар I, а другом половином гувернадур Јоко.