House of Boshko
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House of Boshko or Bošković was the name of several families of some renown in the Adriatic city of Dubrovnik between the 17th and 19th century. One of them was a noble family whose claimed ancestors were the Pokrajčić or Potkravić, a noble Bosnian (Serbian sources usually mention them as Serbian) family that migrated to Dubrovnik after the Turkish conquest of Bosnia. Another branch of Boškovićes, or most probably a completely unrelated family which shared the same surname (Bošković was a common patronymic surname in Dubrovnik at the time) settled in the city at the end of the 18th century, coming from the village of Orahov Do in the neighbouring Eastern Herzegovina. Although this Bošković family never gained the city nobility, many of its members excelled in arts and sciences, most notably Ruđer Bošković, the well-known physicist. The first member of this family to settle in Dubrovnik was Ruđer's father, Nikola Bošković.
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Nikola Bošković (lived 1642 (uncertain) — 18 September 1721) went to the Republic of Dubrovnik as a trader in the service of Rad Getaldic, who then dispatched him to Novi Pazar in Sandžak, Ottoman Empire to learn from the local traders. Nikola returned to Dubrovnik as a very wealthy man. His travels through Rascia were written down by a Jesuit priest Riggeputti who was collecting material for his work Illyricum Sacrum, a history of Christianity in the Balkans. Bošković describes the historical and sacral monuments of Rascia including several Orthodox monasteries and royal palaces, and also comments on the sad state of Roman Catholic Church in these lands under the Turkish rule. After settling down in Dubrovnik Nikola married a daughter of a local notable of Italian origin, Paula Bettera. He had eight children with Paula, the second youngest being the most famous - Ruđer.
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- Željko Marković, "Ruđe Bošković", Jugoslavenska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, 1968-1969., Zagreb, 1968-69.
- Marijan Sivrić, Nenad Vekarić, "A Genealogical Presentation of the Bošković Family", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Ruđer Bošković, Dubrovnik, 5th-7th October 1987; Jugoslavenska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, Zagreb, 1991.
- Of the ethnicity of Rudjer Boskovic in Serbian, made by "Archimedes" scientific club
- Justin V. Velnić, "Ancestry of Ruđer Bošković", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Ruđer Bošković, Dubrovnik, 5th-7th October 1987; Jugoslavenska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, Zagreb, 1991.
- Development of Astronomy among Serbs volume II, Publication of the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, Belgrade, 2002
