Stevan Simić

Stevan Simić (9 May 1882, in Kratovo – 25 June 1962, in Skopje) was a Serb geographer, educator and member of the Serbian Chetnik Organization in Old Serbia and an MP in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

From 1906 to 1912 he worked as a teacher in Serb schools in Bitola, Pljevlja, Thessaloniki and Skopje in Ottoman territories.

At the Nazi onslaught on Yugoslavia and the Bulgarian occupation of Macedonia he escaped to Belgrade where he spent the rest of the war.

Unlike many of his compatriots, Simić did not succumb to pressures of the communist regime to change his surname and declare himself an ethnic Macedonian.

Barely tolerated by the authorities Simić lived in Skopje modestly, spending most of his time in writing memoirs.