The book "Maritime Economy of Boka Kotorska in the XNUMXth Century", authored by academician dr Miloš Milošević, was presented on Tuesday evening at the Maritime Museum of Montenegro in Kotor.
The book, which is the summation of Milosevic's numerous scientific works and research on the history of Bokele seafaring in the "golden age" of the Venetian administration over Boka Kotorska, was published by the publishing house "Gospa od Škrpjela" from Perast. He prepared Milosevic's works for publication in this book Vlastimir Djordjevic who was also the editor of the previously published capital work of Dr. Miloš Milošević, the book "Seafarers, Merchants, Warriors and Patrons".
Academician prof. Dr. Miloš Milošević, prominent Bokel scientist and writer, admiral of the ancient Bokel navy, died nine years ago. The promotion of his new book was symbolically timed on Milošević's 101st birthday, and about the life and work of his famous father and growing up in the old captain's Dobrot family Milošević, Milošević's daughter, an archivist, spoke warmly and inspiredly to the visitors of the promotion Jelena Antović.
Dr. Milošević was a versatile scientific and artistic personality - historian, archivist and novelist, poet and musician. Descendant of the famous Dobrot captain and seafaring family, Milošević was born in 1920 in Split, where his father was in the service. In that city, he completed elementary school and two classes of classical high school, and continued his education in Cetinje and Subotica. He studied law in Subotica and Padova, where he graduated. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, Romance group, in Belgrade in 1948, he specialized in archival science in 1970 in Paris, and four years later he received his doctorate at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zadar with the topic "The Bay of Kotorska during the Venetian rule 1420-1797". During his career, he worked and lived in Kotor, Belgrade, and Novi Sad, and he spent most of his time in the historical archive of Kotor, of which he was the director for many years. Among other things, he was the president of the Association of Archives Workers of Montenegro, the president of the Union of Associations of Archive Workers of Yugoslavia, a member of the Archives Council of Yugoslavia, representative of Yugoslavia at international congresses of archivists in Brussels, Madrid, Moscow, Washington, and in 1980 in London he was elected president of the Section of Professional Archival Societies MAS at UNESCO. As a historian, he participated in the work of the Scientific Council of the Historical Institute in Podgorica, a member of the Kotor section of the Society of Historians of Montenegro, the Association of Organizations for the Study and Improvement of Maritime Affairs in Zadar, and the Scientific Society for the Study of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy. As a musician, Miloš Milošević was a member of the Presidency of the Association of Composers and Music Writers of Yugoslavia. In 1991, he was elected a lifetime admiral of the Bokel Navy, an organization that inherits the traditions of the oldest naval fraternity in these areas, more than 12 centuries old.
For his scientific work, Dr. Miloš Milošević received several awards, recognitions and orders, among which: the Order of Labor with a Golden Wreath, the Thirteenth of July Award of Montenegro, the Order of the Republic of Croatia, the Order of Danica Croatia with the image of Katarina Zrinska, the charter of the Bokel Navy, the Union of Societies of Conservationists of Yugoslavia, the University of Zadar and the Society for the Study and Advancement of the Maritimes of Yugoslavia, as well as the "Merito Navali" award of the Maritime Museum of Montenegro Kotor, and the 21st November Award of the City of Kotor.
He is the author of 14 books and over 240 individual scientific papers. Among his most significant works are the collections of poetry "Let's hold hands" and "Alone on the deck", an extensive historical study "Maritime merchants, warriors and patrons" and a collection of historical records "From the past of Boka Kotorska", and together with Jelena Antović he prepared phototype editions of the Statute of the Brotherhood of Saint Nicholas the Sailor in Kotor from 1463, Saalegat from 1807", issued in 2009 on the occasion of the 1.200th anniversary of the transfer of relics St. Tripuna from Constantinople to Kotor and the existence of the Bokel navy.
Now his opus is joined by the new book "Maritime Economy of the Boka Kotorska in the XVIII Century", which contains over 370 pages of valuable scientific works on the professional training of seamen in the Boka Kotorska in the 17th and 18th centuries, lending to the maritime economy in the 18th century, and detailed overviews of the seafaring of Kotor, Perast, Dobrota, Stoliv and Herceg Novi, and the book also contains a special chapter dedicated to maritime elements and the family archive of one of the of the most respectable maritime and noble families of Boke, Balović from Perast.
"Seafaring and trade, maritime fraternities, prominent individuals, warriors, sailors, cultural pioneers, artists, cultural monuments and the artistic heritage of cities and towns in this unique bay, are only a panoramic selection and a cross-section of numerous topics that were the focus of the author's attention. A meticulous research approach, perfect knowledge and mastery of the vast amount of Kotor archival materials, data processing skills, broad interest in choosing research topics, are just some of the fundamental features of Milosevic's bound studies on the past of Boka", said the librarian at the promotion. Slavko Dabinović.
Architect-senior conservator mr Zorica Čubrović she also recalled the significant role of Dr. Miloš Milošević in the reconstruction of numerous capital Kotor cultural monuments, the most important of which is the Cathedral of St. Trupun, after suffering in the 1979 earthquake. She also recalled his insistence on the thesis that the rich cultural heritage of Boka was created as a result of the local maritime economy and shipping as the most natural activity for this narrow coastal strip squeezed between the sea and the harsh rocky hinterland.
"For the modern generation, the selected studies on Boka seafaring represent the most fertile ground for understanding this message of Miloš Milošević, one of the best connoisseurs of the history and cultural trends of Boka Kotorska, because on the pages of the book, whose title page flashes the deep blue color of the sea distance, on whose surface a sailing ship from Dobrot sails in silver, there is actually a treasure vault in the form of a precious possession of information about the people from the shores of Boka Kotorska who were the carriers of the maritime economy of the 18th century. Their characters appear before our inquisitive eyes in countless bundles of read archival documents, which Milosevic carefully and interestedly studied in search of the historical roles of the people of Boka, as well as the roles of the settlement and the bay itself. "There are few regions that could have such interpreters of their own history as is the case with Boka Kotorska and the personality of Miloš Milošević, who carried the identity of Boka in his being," Čubrović pointed out, among other things.
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