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 Serbian family that migrated to Dubrovnik after the Turkish conquest of Bosnia.
Another branch of Bošković's, 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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- 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
