Jovan Jonovski

Biographic Data

ID6913965
NAMEJovan Jonovski
GIVEN NAMESJovan
FAMILY NAMEJonovski
SIGNATUREJONOVSKI J
AFFILIATIONSMacedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts
ORCID0000-0003-2448-3441
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS21
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR21
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Between Constantinople and Moscow

    Open AccessJovan JonovskiARTICLEReligions2026

    The article examines the history and the mechanism of obtaining autocephalous status for the Macedonian Orthodox Church—Archbishopric of Ohrid, from the early initiatives in 1944, through the self-decared autocephalous status in 1967, the appeal to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in 2018, and finally the granting of a Tomos by the Serbian Orthodox Church in 2022 and further steps toward obtaining full recognition by all other Orthod…

  • The Insignia of the President of the Republic of Macedonia

    Open AccessJovan JonovskiARTICLEMakedonski Herald2026

    Macedonian Heraldic Society (MHS) was given the task designing the presidential insignia by the newly elected President of the Republic of Macedonia, Georgi Ivanov in 2009. For the design of the Standard, as well of the Coat of Arms of Office of the President, the initial approach was to find a Coat of Arms connected to Macedonia, but outside the Illyrian armorials. Two Coats of Arms were chosen from the European armories, one attributed to Alexa…

  • The Legal Position of the Religious Communities in the Republic of Macedonia

    Jovan JonovskiARTICLEOccasional Papers on Religion in…2025

    The territory of the modern Republic of Macedonia (official name as of recently is Republic of North Macedonia) has historically been exposed to Judaism, Eastern and Western Christianity, Islam, and later to Protestantism. In the People’s /Socialist Republic of Macedonia, the religious communities were kept out of public life and suppressed. The government favored the Macedonian Orthodox Church for strengthening the Macedonian national consciousn…

  • Одѕиви во печатот на албански јазик на предлогот за грб на Република Македонија со лав од 2014 година

    Open AccessJovan JonovskiARTICLEMakedonski Herald2025

    Целта на оваа статија е да ги разгледа текстовите на албански јазик во бројот 25 од јануари 2015 година на месечниот национален магазинот за политика, економија и култура „Шења“ од Скопје, со главна тема, „Македонскиот грб со „албански“ лав!?“, посветен на предлогот на грб на Република Македонија со лав од декември 2014 година. Покрај обраќањето од уредникот, се застапени 9 статии од различни автори со широк спектар на мислења и ставови за предло…

  • XXIII International Heraldry Colloquium – Iasi, Romania, 27–30 August 2025

    Open AccessJovan Jonovski, Jovan ЈоновскиARTICLEMakedonski Herald2025

    XXIII International Heraldry Colloquium – IaSi, romania, 27–30 August 2025

  • Survey of the Macedonian Decorations

    Open AccessJovan JonovskiARTICLEMakedonski Herald2024

    The first decorations used in today’s Republic of Macedonia are from the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia (later SFRY). The first authentic decoration of People‘s Republic of Macedonia is the Ilinden memorial medal from 1951 as a decoration of the Republic. After the independence of the Yugoslav Republics, Croatia and Slovenia had their first decorations in 1992, while the Republic of Macedonia only 13 years later, although the first law on decorati…

  • The Golden Book of the Constantinian order of St. George and the Coat of Arms of the Archbishop of Ohrid Joasaph II

    Open AccessJovan JonovskiARTICLEMakedonski Herald2023

    The Holy Military Constantinian Order of Saint George was established in 1545 as a fantasy order claiming the non-existent Byzantine tradition of Orders of Chivalry. But latter was accepted by Papacy as a legitime order. After the Grand Master title was sold to Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma in 1697, several pretenders in the Holy Roman Empire were sanctioned by the emperor. Prince Radu Cantacuzino, eldest son of Ștefan, Prince of Wallachia (17…

  • Jonovski Family and the Village of Orovo from 18 to 20th Century

    Open AccessJovan JonovskiARTICLEMakedonski Herald2023

    Jonovski family originates from the village of Orovo in Small Prespa Lake Region, in Aegean Macedonia, today most North West point of Greece. The oldest known ancestor is Joshe born around 1766. This article covers 8 generations and 40 individuals (mentioning a further 30) in a period of over two centuries. In 1926 Greek government the changed village name to Pixos and the family name to Joanidis. The village was destroyed and depopulated during …

  • Александар Матковски и албанската хералдика - Aleksandar Matkovski and Albanian Heraldry

    Open AccessJovan JonovskiARTICLEMakedonski Herald2023

    Статијата на Александар Матковски „Албански грбови во минатото“ објавена на албански јазик во Приштина 1969 година, на 69 страница со 27 илустрации, најверојатно е прво дело за албанската хералдика. Матковски статијата ја подготвува во период кога ја подготвува и книгата “Грбовите на Македонија – прилог кон македонската хералдика”, од која и го црпи најголемиот дел од материјалот. Се повикува на изворите во кои го бара и го наоѓа и македонскиот г…

  • Macedonian Herald #11 (2018) To #20 (2023) Index

    Open AccessJovan JonovskiARTICLEMakedonski Herald2023

    Macedonian Herald #11 (2018) To #20 (2023) Index

  • Мојот хералдички пат - My Heraldic Journey

    Open AccessJovan JonovskiARTICLEMakedonski Herald2023

    The 30- years heraldic journey of Jovan Jonovski, where he describes the beginnings of his interest in heraldry and his scientific development

  • The Macedonian Heraldic Register 2018 - 2023

    Open AccessJovan JonovskiARTICLEMakedonski Herald2023

    The Macedonian Heraldic Register 2018 - 2023

  • The Development of the State Emblems and Coats of Arms in Southeast Europe

    Open AccessJovan JonovskiARTICLEGenealogy2023

    Heraldic traditions in southeast European countries are similar, as are the histories of their state emblems and coat of arms. Their development could be classified into three periods: (1) from the founding of the states until the end of World War II; (2) the socialist period; and (3) the period of democratisation after the collapse of socialism. The focus of this work is the processes of the adoption of coats of arms. The descriptions are taken …

  • Poverty, Wars, and Migrations

    Open AccessJovan JonovskiARTICLEGenealogy2023

    This article will cover the different types of migration in Macedonia and its Prespa region at the end of the 19th and 20th centuries through the Jonovski family from the village of Orovo. Poverty and wars caused many men to look for work and to earn money in distant places. Joshe, who was born around 1766, was first an economic migrant with his father, Marko, internally within the Ottoman Empire in Asia Minor (1880–1890). Later, he immigrated to…

  • Историја на македoнското државно знаме - History of the Macedonian National Flag

    Open AccessJovan JonovskiARTICLEMakedonski Herald2022

    The first recorded flag usage in Byzantine Macedonia goes back to the 10th century. Portolans shows a yellow flag with a red double-headed eagle above City od Skopje. The heraldic flags attributed to Alexander the Great in medieval European sources are also included. Among the rebellion flags under Ottoman Empire the oldest preserved is from 1876 Macedonian Uprising in Razlovci. From the insurgent flags of Ilinden Uprising in 1903 came the color …

  • Реалната хералдика во Македонија до 1991 - Real Heraldry in Macedonia until 1991

    Open AccessJovan JonovskiARTICLEMakedonski Herald2021

    Every European region and country has heraldry with some specifics. In this paper we will consider the real heraldry in the Peoples/Socialist Republic of Macedonia, understood by the multitude of the coat of arms, and the armorial knowledge and art. It covers the earliest preserved heraldic motifs and coat of arms found in Macedonia in pre-Ottoman period. Also, real heraldry that existed on the territory as well as the State and municipal heraldr…

  • Heraldry in the Republic of Macedonia (1991–2019)

    Open AccessJovan JonovskiARTICLEGenealogy2021References: 2

    Every European country now has some distinctive heraldic conventions and traditions embodied in the designs and artistic representations of the emblems forming part of its national corpus. This paper deals with these matters in the period from independence in 1991 to the recent change of name in 2019. It deals with the successive designs proposed for the emblem of the state itself, some of which conformed to international heraldic conventions clo…

  • Heraldry in Macedonia with Special Regard to the People’s/Socialist Republic of Macedonia until 1991

    Open AccessJovan JonovskiARTICLEGenealogy2021Cited by: 1

    Every European region and country has some specific heraldry. In this paper, we will consider heraldry in the People’s/Socialist Republic of Macedonia, understood by the multitude of coats of arms, and armorial knowledge and art. Due to historical, as well as geographical factors, there is only a small number of coats of arms and a developing knowledge of art, which make this paper’s aim feasible. This paper covers the earliest preserved heraldic…

  • Блазонирање На Стематографиите На Витезовиќ И Жефаровиќ - Blazoning the Stemmatographias of Vitezovic and Zhefarovic

    Open AccessJovan JonovskiARTICLEMakedonski Herald2020

    Vitezovic’s Stemmatographia (1701) and Zhefarovic’s translation into Slavic (1741), along with the Illyrian roll of arms (Korenic-Neoric, London, Fojnica, and other transcriptions) are part of the so-called Illyrian Heraldry, the central heraldic source for the Slavic Balkans of the 16th to 18th centuries.While the Illyrian Armorial has been blazoned in English as well as in other Slavic languages, this paper is the first attempt to blazon the 56…

  • Македонски свадбарски знамиња - Macedonian wedding flags

    Open AccessJovan Jonovski, Mojso PopovskiARTICLEMakedonski Herald2020

    Свадбените знамиња - бајраци се посебен вид на знамиња, ритуални, кои примарно имаат реликвијална и религиозна дименазија, а се упоребуваат само на свадбени обичаи. Во Македонија се познати мијачките но и други вакви знамиња. Текстот опишува и класифицира 8 свадбарски знамиња од Музејот на Македонија, Музејот на Крушево, од приватна колекција и фотографии на кои можат да се видат знамињата целосно

  • The Coats of Arms and Other Forms of State Emblem Proposed for the Republic of Macedonia, and the Process of Their Adoption, 1992–2014

    Open AccessJovan JonovskiARTICLEGenealogy2018

    Selecting national emblems is crucial for the development of a national identity. This paper presents all official proposals for the coat of arms of the Republic of Macedonia, starting in 1992, with the proposals of the public competition for the selection of the coat of arms, flag, and anthem of the Republic of Macedonia, and finishing with the last Government proposal in 2014. All of the proposals are categorized according to their main symbol,…