On their way towards the Kingdom of Hungary with other refugees from Old Herzegovina and Old Montenegro, they stopped in Podgorina, at the foot of the Medvednik mountain (probably because the impassable hinterland provided security from the Ottomans).

1932)[4] and then president of the Belgrade People's Court (after knez Milosav Zdravković), at which position he remained until 1828, when he was made commander of the Serbian Army on the Drina sent to prevent the surge of Ottoman Bosnians into Mačva.

But due to the increasingly numerous and violent conflicts between the Muslim occupants and the newcomers from the Dinara region, particularly from Grahovo (now in Montenegro),[6] Prince Miloš sent Bobovac from Belgrade to the region of Azbukovica to join knez Jevrem Obrenović and Petar Vasić in supervising and hastening the relocation of the Muslims who did not accept the provisions of the Hatt-i humayun, which unambiguously ordered the compulsory eviction of Ottomans from Serbia, except those registered in the territories of the garrison posts.

In April he already came into conflict with the Muslims whom Husein Pasha from Belgrade had called upon by decree (buruntia) to return to their former estates and continue to farm them as they had before the eviction.

[7][8] Despite the complex situation, Bobovac managed to complete the task entrusted to him by Miloš in 1831, but at the cost of a serious conflict with some of the Muslim chiefs which was to have tragic consequences for him and his life several months later.

[9] In the villages beneath the Medvednik is still taught the tale of the "Church built by knez Jovan Simić Bobovac, but burned down by the Turks after the failure of the First Serbian Uprising (1804)", when the local people fled to the mountain.