Mašo Vrbica

Mašo Vrbica (Serbian Cyrillic: Машо Врбица; 1833 in Vrba[1] – 10 May 1898 in Banja Luka) was a Montenegrin vojvoda and military commander.

He commanded a unit at the Battle of Grahovac in 1858, and with the cannon captured there organized the artillery for Montenegrin army.

In November 1877 he laid siege to Stari Bar, taking the coastal port and eventually the town in January 1878.

Vrbica headed several large construction works in Montenegro, notably the bridge over the Zeta in Danilovgrad, the road from Rijeka Crnojevića to Podgorica and the water supply in Cetinje.

Vrbica came into conflict with Prince Nikola, and defected to Austria-Hungary with his son Labud, who was married to Danica, the daughter of the Austro-Hungarian envoy to Montenegro, Theodor von Milinković.