Tibor ivkovi (Serbian Cyrillic: ; March 11, 1966 March 26,

2013) was a Serbian historian who mostly studied Serbian history in the Early
Middle Ages.

ivkovi was born in Mostar, and history studied at the Faculty of Philosophy at
the University of Belgrade between 1985/86. and 1990, when he graduated at
the Department of Antiquity. He received his MA in 1996 with a thesis slavizacija
na teritoriju Srbije VII-XI stoljea (Slavicization on the territory of Serbia 7th-11th
centuries). He received his PhD in 2000 with a dissertation Slavs under Byzantine
rule from the 7th to 11th Centuries (until 1025).

As of 1997, he worked at The Institute of History of the Serbian Academy of

Sciences and Arts (SANU),[1] and was the director of the Historical Institute from
2002 to 2010, as well as editor in chief of the Drafting Committee editions of the
Historical Institute.[1]

During the doctoral studies he was a scholar of the Greek government (19971999). As a scholar of the Ministry of Science and Technological Development of
Serbia stayed at the postdoctoral studies at the Center for Byzantine Research
(Institute for Byzantine Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation). He has
participated as a team leader in archaeological excavations along the Ibar river
between 2003 and 2009. He has taught general Middle Ages at the Faculty of
Philosophy at the University of Banja Luka.