# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ru-ina-balsic
# Generated: 2026-09-01T11:40:31.236Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ru-ina-balsic"
name: "Ruđina Balšić"
slug: "ru-ina-balsic"
description: "Ruđina Balšić was a Zetan noblewoman, from the Balšić family, who ruled over parts of modern-day Montenegro and Albanian. She married Mrkša Žarković and inherited his realm, the Principality of Vlorë, when he died in 1414. After unsuccessful negotiations to sell her duchy to the Venetians, the Ottomans captured it in 1417. She fled to Corfu, then to Zeta where she was governess of Budva from 1418. In 1420, during the Second Scutari War, she surrendered Budva to the Venetians without any resistance and moved to Dubrovnik with the town's treasury."
tagline: "Medieval Albanian noblewoman of the Muzaka family"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RudinaBalshaj.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1396"
deathDate: "1420"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.15
  momentum:             0.1
  historical:           8.340605333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%88%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Ружина Балшич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rucina_Bal%C5%9Fi%C3%A7"
    title: "Rucina Balşiç"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0_%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%88%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Ружица Балшич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A1%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%84%CE%B6%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%B1_%CE%9C%CF%80%CE%AC%CE%BB%CF%83%CE%B9%CF%84%CF%82"
    title: "Ρουτζίνα Μπάλσιτς"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ru%C4%91ina_Bal%C5%A1i%C4%87"
    title: "Ruđina Balšić"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudina_Balsha"
    title: "Rudina Balsha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ru%C4%91ina_Bal%C5%A1i%C4%87"
    title: "Ruđina Balšić"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudina_Balsha"
    title: "Rudina Balsha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%92%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%88%D0%B8%D1%9B"
    title: "Руђина Балшић"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ru%C4%91ina_Bal%C5%A1i%C4%87"
    title: "Ruđina Balšić"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12292609"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump