Bovan () is a village in Serbia situated in the municipality of Aleksinac, in the Nià ¡ava District. Bovan has a population of 554 as recorded in the 2002 census.
The village was a site of operations in the First Serbian Uprising (1804âÂÂ13). In 1806, after the takeover of Aleksinac, the Serb rebels heard that the Pasha of Nià ¡ aimed to take Aleksinac with a large army; vojvoda of Crna Reka Milisav ÃÂorÃÂeviàand vojvoda Stevan SinÃÂeliàwent from Gornja Poljanica to the gorge of Trkanja (around Bovan) to defend the area and Aleksinac from the Turks. The combined Serb forces of Milisav, SinÃÂeliÃÂ, Petar Dobrnjac, Ilija Stoà ¡iàand Paulj MatejiÃÂ, numbering 800, destroyed the Turks, numbering 3,000, at Dà ¾ivdà ¾ibare. The Ottoman army of Nià ¡ never went for Aleksinac, while vojvoda Milisav stayed at Trkanja and monitored the Turks that trenched themselves around Sokobanja, and stopped them from entering Serb villages. Shortly afterwards, vojvoda Milisav and his Crna Reka army retreated from Trkanja to à  umadija, in order to finally take over Belgrade.