Petar Ičko

Petar Ičko was a merchant from Ottoman Macedonia active in Belgrade and dragoman (translator) for Ottoman delegations in Vienna and Berlin who notably joined the Serbian rebels during the First Serbian Uprising as an advisor and diplomat. His friend Hadji Mustafa Pasha, the Vizier of Belgrade, was murdered in December 1801 by the renegade Janissaries known as Dahije. He fled to Habsburg Zemun and worked with the Serbian rebel leadership, becoming their advisor and diplomat sent to Constantinople to negotiate with the Porte. He is remembered for instituting Ičko's Peace, though of short duration.