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Marko Vego: History of Humska zemlje (Herzegovina) I.
Vego, Marko, Bosnian historian and archaeologist (Čapljina, January 8, 1907 – Sarajevo, February 26, 1985). He graduated from the Faculty of Theology in Freiburg (1931) and history at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb (1936). From 1938 to 1944, he worked as a teacher at the gymnasium in Nikšić, and in 1944–45 he participated in the anti-fascist movement. After II. During World War II, he was a professor in Trebinje and Sarajevo (1945–49) and the director of the gymnasium in Mostar (1946–47) and the teachers' school in Sarajevo (1949–50). From 1950 until his retirement in 1965, he was employed at the National Museum of BiH in Sarajevo (1950–57 director). Excavated medieval necropolises and churches, dealt with archaeological topography, stećci, medieval numismatics, epigraphy and paleography. Researched the Bosnian Middle Ages; it is his special merit that he also included archaeological material in the issue of the Bosnian Church. Works: History of Humska zemlje (Herzegovina) (1937), Ljubuški (1954), Settlements of the medieval Bosnian state (1957), History of Broć from the earliest times to the Turkish occupation (1961), Collection of medieval inscriptions of Bosnia and Herzegovina (I–IV, 1962–70), Bekija through the ages (1964), From the history of medieval Bosnia and Herzegovina (1980), The birth of the medieval Bosnian state (1982).
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