Theodor Bua (Albanian: Teodor Bua) was a 15th-century Albanians military commander who served as a captain of the Stradioti regiments of the Republic of Venice.
Biography
After the Venetian-Ottoman peace treaty of 1479, that gave to the Ottomans the last free part of Albania, areas of the
Peloponnese, and Dalmatia (
Albania Veneta), Teodor Bua defected from the Venetian army and joined the rebellion of Krokodeilos Kladas in the
Morea (contemporaneous name for the Peloponnese). In his
Dispacci al Senato e ad Altri,
Bartolomeo Minio describes an incident in which the Venetian commander of
Nafplio sent an Albanian contingent against him and Meksha Buziqi. Still, the soldiers refused to attack them because of their kinship ties and compatriotism.
[ Albanica, University of Tirana] The rebellion ultimately failed after the two commanders broke their alliance. Afterwards, Bua returned to Venetian territory but was jailed in
Monemvasia.
[ The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571: The fifteenth century p.329]
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