Marko Vego was a Herzegovinian Croatian, archeologist, epigrapher and historian

Historian

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Vego was born in Čapljina

Capljina

Čapljina is a town and municipality of the same name in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located in the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Čapljina is located on the border with Croatia a mere from the Adriatic Sea....

 (Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina

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) to father Jozo who was a worker at a tobacco station. Vego finished a Široki Brijeg

Široki Brijeg

-Name:The name of the city means "the wide hill" in Croatian . The city is also sometime referred to as "Široki Brig" and among the inhabitants of Herzegovina simply as "Široki" . Between 1945 and 1990, the name was officially Lištica, after the river that flows through it.-Geography:The river...

 classical gymnasium

Gymnasium (school)

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, the Faculty of Theology at the University of Freiburg

University of Freiburg

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 (Germany

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) and the University of Zagreb

University of Zagreb

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 (Croatia

Croatia

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), Faculty of Philosophy also at the University of Zagreb and a professorial exam in Belgrade

Belgrade

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, Serbia

Serbia

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. He wrote a doctoral thesis titled "History of Zachlumia

Zachlumia

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 from the coming of Slavs to uniting with Bosnia in 1322" at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. Unfortunately, he did not present it due to some unexplained circumstances.

Vego worked as a history teacher at the State Real Gymnasium

Realschule

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 in Nikšić

Nikšić

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, Montenegro

Montenegro

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 from 1938 to 1944. He also took part in the Antifascist Action from October 1, 1944 to May 15, 1945. He was a professor at the first Teacher Course in Trebinje

Trebinje

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 and advanced to the status of the Trebinje Partisan Gymnasium principal on February 22, 1945. In 1946 and 1947 he was the principal of the State Real Gymnasium in Mostar

Mostar

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, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and since September 9, 1947 he worked as a professor at the Teacher Course in Sarajevo

Sarajevo

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. In 1949–50 he was the principal of the Teacher School in Sarajvo. From August 28, 1950 to December 9, 1957 he was the director of the Country Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo.

Marko Vego retired in 1965. He received several awards in Bosnia and Herzegovina for his work (the most important one is the July 27 award). Vego's subject of focus were mostly medieval times

Medieval Times

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 and he was best known for his work in archeology, numismatics

Numismatics

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, epigraphy

Epigraphy

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 and topographical

Topography

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 history of Medieval Bosnia. He published more than 300 works. He died in Sarajevo

Sarajevo

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