Vicko Bujović
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Vicko Bujović (1660 – May 6, 1709) was a Venetian military commander and captain of Perast.
Life
During the
pirates. Between 1694 and 1708 he was repeatedly elected a leader of the town. His palace was finished in 1694; on March 28, 1704, he was made a duke
.
Bujović provoked a quarrel with the Zmajević family, prominent locally, when he fled to
Catholicism and took the name Jela. The two later got married, their best man being a notable painter Tripo Kokolja. On May 6, 1709, Vicko was provoked into and killed in a street fight by a member of the Stukanović family. For his involvement in the fight, Matija Zmajević was forced to leave Perast, eventually taking up service with the Russian Empire
.
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