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The Bua were a medieval Albanian tribe.[1][2][3] The name is first attested in 14th-century historical documents as one of the Albanian tribes living in the Despotate of Epirus.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.
- ^ Floristán 2019, p. 3.
- ^ Gramaticopolo 2016, pp. 46–47
- ^ Osswald 2007, p. 136.
- ^ Osswald 2007, p. 136