He was too young to participate in the First World War, but he lost almost all of his cousins who were drafted in the Serbian Army. After the war he went to Macedonia (then part of the Vardar Banate) where the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes initiated projects for the construction of schools throughout the region. He planned to return to central Serbia after finishing his job; however, he met a girl, another Serbian, called Ružica Ristić and he formed a family in the vicinity of Skopje. Unfortunately for him after the Bulgarian Occupation in 1941, the Bulgarian fascists decided to expulse all the ethnic Serbs out of Macedonia. His whole family, except his son Slobodan (my great grandfather), returned to his home village and his youngest son was virtually born on one of the train stations during this journey. After the war Kuzman Jovanović returned to Macedonian reuniting the family again.

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Global History

• King Alexander I Karadjodjević (1888 -1934) – he enacted an agrarian reform in Macedonia, as part of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. He also encouraged Serbs to move to Macedonia by offering them land. But the program was not at all popular with the Macedonians who also resisted the efforts to suppress their Macedonian identity and to transform them into the Serbians. Therefore, the Macedonian revolutionaries played a crucial role in his assassination in 1934 in Marseille, France.