Božo Nikolić ( sr-cyrl, Божо Николић; 22 September 1946 – 17 November 2010) was a
Montenegrin Croat sea captain
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and politician from
Montenegro
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, and one of the founders of
Croatian Civic Initiative
The Croatian Civic Initiative ( Croatian/ Montenegrin: ''Hrvatska građanska inicijativa'', HGI, Montenegrin Cyrillic: Хрватска грађанска иницијатива, ХГИ) is a political party of the Croat minority in Montenegro.
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He was a member of
Croatian Confraternity Bokelj Navy 809.
Nikolić was born in
Gornja Lastva
Gornja Lastva () is a small settlement in the municipality of Tivat, Montenegro
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in
Tivat
Tivat (Serbo-Croatian: Tivat/Тиват, ) is a town in Coastal region of Montenegro, located in the Bay of Kotor. , its population was 9,367. Tivat is the centre of Tivat Municipality, which is the smallest municipality by area in Montenegro.
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municipality,
Bay of Kotor
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. With the
Coalition for European Montenegro
The European Montenegro (, ; abbr. ECG) was the ruling political alliance in Montenegro headed by Milo Đukanović's Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS).
Following the internal turmoil within the DPS during late 1996 and early 1997 when the pa ...
, he entered the
Parliament of Montenegro
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in the
2006 elections
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. In doing so he became the first Croat minority representative to enter the Assembly. He died in 2010, at the age of 64.
See also
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Croatian Confraternity Bokelj Navy 809.
References
1949 births
2010 deaths
People from Tivat
Croats of Montenegro
Croatian Civic Initiative politicians
Croatian people of Montenegrin descent
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