Jovan Trifunoski

Jovan Trifunoski (23 September 1914 — 1 February 1997) was a Serbian, Yugoslav and Macedonian geographer and anthropologist.

Biography He was born as Jovan Trifunović on 23 September 1914 in the village of Vrutok, then in Kingdom of Serbia, into an agrarian family. Trifunoski finished primary school in his native village and then high school in Skopje and Tetovo. He enrolled into the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje in 1935, where he graduated in 1939. Trifunoski's fieldwork research contradicted with Ottoman data many times, such as with the villages of Studena Bara, Mojanci, Raštak, Batinci, Dejkovec, Radišani, and Orlanci. He published an anthropogeographical monograph about the Ohrid-Struga region in Belgrade in 1992, based on fieldwork he did in the late 1970s. In his 1997 book Macedonization of South Serbia, he proclaimed that he was a Serb and in the same time criticized the policy of Macedonization implemented in Communist Yugoslavia towards the Serbs in Macedonia.

Select bibliography Kumanovsko-preševska Crna Gora, Belgrade 1952. Kumanovska oblast, Skopje 1974. Seoska naselja Skopske kotline, Skopje 1974.