Bua (tribe)
Albanian tribe and noble family / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bua (also Boua) were a medieval Albanian noble family[1][2] and tribe.[3] The name is first attested in 14th-century historical documents as one of the Albanian tribes living in the Despotate of Epirus. Later on, the Bua settled southwards in the Peloponnese, and a part of them found refuge in Italy in the Arbëreshë migrations that followed the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans.[4] A branch of the tribe regiments was ennobled in the Holy Roman Empire after its service in the Stratioti, a Balkan mercenary unit. Mërkur Bua (1478 –c. 1542), its most prominent member, was Count of Aquino and Roccasecca.
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Place of origin | Albania |
Cadet branches | Meksi family |
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