'''Theodore Bua''' or '''Theodore Bouas''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Θεόδωρος Μπούας) was a 15th-century [[GreeksAlbanians|GreekAlbanian]] military commander from [[Albania in the Middle Ages|Albania]] who served as a captain of the [[stradioti]] regiments of the [[Republic of Venice]].<ref name=Trombley270>{{harvnb|Trombley|2009|loc=p. 270: "Kladas attracted support from the pro-Venetian Greek militia of Nauplion, who were nominally under Venetian control, and whose Greek commander Theodore Bouas marched across the Peloponnesos to join Kladas."}}</ref><ref name=Setton>{{harvnbsfn|Setton|1978|pp=328–329}}.</ref>
==Biography==
After the [[Treaty of Constantinople (1479)|Venetian-Ottoman peace treaty of 1479]], that gave to the Ottomans the last free part of Albania, areas of Peloponnesus and Dalmatia ([[Albania Veneta]]), Theodore BouasBua defected from the Venetian army and joined the rebellion of [[Krokodeilos Kladas]] in the [[Morea]].<ref name=Trombley270/><ref name{{sfn|Trombley|2009|p=270}}{{sfn|Setton/>|1978|pp=328–329}} In his ''Dispacci al Senato e ad Altri'', [[Bartolomeo Minio]] describes an incident in which the Venetian commander of [[Nafplio]] sent aan contingentAlbanian of ''stratioti''contingent against him and MexaMeksha BusichiBuziqi but the soldiers refused to attack them because of their kinship ties and compatriotism.<ref>{{harvnb|Sathas|1885|p=159}}[https://books.google.com/books?ei=rfPXTc2kH8iBOt2SpIkH&ct=result&id=_QAWAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22the+rebels+were+their+compatriots%21%22&q=%22Meksha+Buziqi%22#search_anchorStudia Albanica, University of Tirana]</ref> The rebellion ultimately failed after the two commanders broke their alliance.<ref name={{sfn|Setton/>|1978|pp=328–329}} Afterwards, BouasBua returned to Venetian territory but was jailed in [[Monemvasia]].{{sfn|Setton|1978|pp=328–329}}<ref name>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Setton0Sz2VYI0l1IC&pg=PA328&dq=%22Theodore+Bua%22&hl=en&ei=bebXTZKbLImfOsOPvKYH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Theodore%20Bua%22&f=false The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571: The fifteenth century p.329]</ref>
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*{{cite book|last=Sathas|first=Konstantinos N.|title=Μνημεία Ελληνικής Ιστορίας: Documents inédites rélatifs à l’histoire de la Grèce au moyen âge|volume=6|location=Paris|year=1885|publisher=Maissoneuve Frère et Ch. Leclerc|url=https://archive.org/details/mnmeiahellniksh06sathgoog/page/n7/mode/2up/|ref=harv}}
*{{cite book|last=Setton|first=Kenneth M.|title=The Papacy and the Levant, Vol. 1|location=Philadelphia, PA|publisher=American Philosophical Society|year=1978|url=https://books.google.gr/books?id=0Sz2VYI0l1IC|isbn=978-960-98903-5-9|ref=harv}}
*{{cite journal|last=Trombley|first=Frank|title=The Fall of Constantinople in 1453 and Late Medieval Greek Culture: The Experience of Defeat|journal=Groniek Historisch Tijdschrift|volume=184|year=2009|pages=267‒284|url= https://ugp.rug.nl/groniek/article/view/17751/15219|ref=harv}}
