Bunjevačka plemićka i časnička obitelj Rukavina
Bunjevci Noble and Officer's Family Rukavina

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the author describes the famous Bunjevci noblemen and officer’s family which lives in the Lika, Primorje, Dalmatia regions and many other places in Croatia. Some people taking into consideration the weak oral tradition and believe that this family originated from the famous noble family Vladimirović originally from Ukraine. Apparently they came to Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 10th century where they lived in their manor near to Mostar. After Bosnia became part of the Ottoman Empire, they came to Dalmatia under the changed family name of Rukavina. In the second half of the 17th century they inhabited Lika and Primorje and some parts of the family moved to Bačka and inhabited the Subotica region.Many members of this family received noble titles and heralds and medals for their military service. Some of them had the title of a count. This family had some generals, vice-marshals and marshals in the Austrian army.Besides historic data about the origin of this family, the author has published some heralds of the Rukavina family with different nicknames, i.e. Vodovgrada, Morgenstern, Vezinovac, from Klanačko Polje, von Liebstadt, Bojongradski and Ljubački.The author has also published in this text two herald papers about the awards of noble titles and the herald of the Rukavina family who became noble because of their military merits.

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