Dr Antun Pugliesi

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Dr. Antun Pugliesi (1858-1927), president of the Serbian People's Party on the Littoral, was born in Dubrovnik to a Serbian Catholic family. His father served as a naval captain in Lloyd's service in Trieste. After their father retired, they returned to Dubrovnik.
Antun finished primary and secondary school in Dubrovnik, and his doctorate in Graz and Vienna.
From 1903 until the First World War he was the president of the Serbian People's Party in Dalmatia. Although there were ten times more Orthodox Serbs in the party than Catholic Serbs, he was unanimously elected president of the party at the party's assembly held in Split in August 1903 ...
He was a member of the Dalmatian Parliament in Zadar and vice president of the Dubrovnik municipality. At the beginning of the First World War (1914), the Austrian authorities took him hostage (military leader of the "Greater Serbia Movement" - ISP), so he was detained and mistreated in prisons in Dubrovnik, Šibenik, Maribor and Graz. His brother Dr. Jero Puljezi (1862-1907) was a doctor and politician from Dubrovnik, and his daughter Pavle Puljezi (1886-1913) was a political activist and the founder of "Srpske zore" ...
There are indications that his family is of purely Serbian and Orthodox origin. Thus, the writer Antonija Vučetić writes in the magazine "Srđ" that their great-grandfathers, according to family tradition, originated from Bosnia, that their name was Vojnovići, and that they settled in Zaton near Dubrovnik. There they traded, acquired property and land. The regiment called them Puglia because they maintained connections in Puglia, Italy. They had great people in the family, one was the archbishop ... Puljezi come from the famous and powerful family Ivelja-Ohmučević-Grgurić, whose origins date back to the 13th century, as can be seen from old genealogical documents of the house. Puljezi ... ”
Source, more: Kosta Novaković, "Serbs in Dalmatia and the Littoral", p. 529-530, SKD „Zora“, Knin-Belgrade, 2020. Order the book: http: //www.zlatnoruno.com /.../ 47209-Srbi-u-Dalmaciji-i ...
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Dr. Anton Puljezi was one of the founders of the newspaper "Glas dubrovački". This magazine was started by five Dubrovnik Serb Catholics (along with Puljezija, Mate Šarić, Vlaho Matijević, Nikša Gradi and Antun Vršić). They made a draft in which they say:
The citizens of Dubrovnik, signed below, are firmly convinced that they are obliged to:
And Javit openly said that, feeling that they were Serbs, he would never merge or unite with the Croats, even though they were ready in the indefinite future to join them in any community.
II Remain in the state union, which exists on this side of Lithuania, and fight in unison with other Slavs against the Germans for the abolition of dualism and the introduction of a federal system.
III Resist consistently any aspiration of any state-legal connection with Croatia.
IV Resist any further survival and development of Italian autonomists as political parties. "