Milo Matanović

{{short description|Serbian and Montenegrin military and politician}}{{Infobox officeholder

| native_name = Мило Матановић

| native_name_lang = sr

| image = Milo Matanović.jpg

| rank = Brigadier

| allegiance = 25px Kingdom of Serbia
25px Kingdom of Montenegro

| occupation = Politician and military

| nationality = Serbo-Montenegrin

| citizenship = 25px Principality of Montenegro
25px Kingdom of Montenegro

| country = Kingdom of Montenegro

| monarch2 = Nicholas I

| predecessor2 = Pero Vucković

| primeminister2 = Himself

| predecessor = Andrija Radović

| successor = Evgenije Popović

| termend = 11 June 1917

| termstart = 17 January 1917

| successor2 = Nikola M. Hajduković

| battles = WW1

| office2 = 37px
2nd Minister of Interior of Kingdom of Montenegro in-Exile

| office = 37px
3rd Prime Minister of Kingdom of Montenegro in-Exile

| monarch = Nicholas I

| termstart2 = 17 January 1917

| termend2 = 11 June 1917

| country2 = Kingdom of Montenegro

| caption = Milo Matanović in 1913

| branch = 25px Royal Serbian Army

| office3 = 37px
2nd Minister of Defence of Kingdom of Montenegro in-Exile

| monarch3 = Nicholas I

| primeminister3 = Andrija Radović
Himself

| predecessor3 = Radomir Vešović

| successor3 = Niko Hajduković

| termstart3 = 12 May 1916

| termend3 = 11 June 1917

| name = Milo Matanović

| birth_date = 27 November 1869

| death_date = 12 May 1955 (85 aged)

}}

Milo Matanović ({{lang-sr-cyrl|Мило Матановић}}; 1871–1955){{Cite web|title=Montenegro {{!}} International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1)|url=https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/montenegro|access-date=2020-08-14|website=encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net}} was a Serbian brigadier who formed a new government in Montenegro at the behest of King Nicholas I of Montenegro during World War I,{{Cite book|last=Станковић|first=Ђорђе Ђ.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DAlPAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Milo+Matanovi%C4%87%22|title=Србија и стварање Југославије|date=2009|publisher=Службени гласник|isbn=978-86-519-0108-2|language=bs}} but all to no avail.{{Cite book|last=Mitrović|first=Andrej|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=viqqqQ2KT7kC&q=Milo+Matanovic&pg=PA192|title=Serbia's Great War, 1914-1918|date=2007|publisher=Purdue University Press|isbn=978-1-55753-477-4|language=en}}{{vague|date=September 2020|reason=So what exactly happened?}} In Serbian historiography, Matanović is a patriotic figure.{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/pdf/1914-1918-Online-montenegro-2014-10-08.pdf|title=Montenegro|encyclopedia=International Encyclopedia of the First World War|date=8 January 2017|last=Raspopović|first=Radoslav|access-date=4 September 2020}} He also served as Minister of Defence and Minister of Interior of Kingdom of Montenegro from 1915 to 1917 before becoming president in 1917, but ultimately through political pressure was forced to resign.{{Cite book|last=Petrović|first=Rastislav V.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JWIMAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Milo+Matanovi%C4%87%22|title=Zavera protiv Srba|date=1990|publisher=Književno-izdavačka zadruga Dositej|isbn=978-86-7501-021-0|language=hr}}