BUCCARI (Serbo-Croatian Bakar), a town of Yugoslavia on a small bay of the Adriatic Sea. Pop. (1931) 2,074. The way from Zagreb to Fiume terminates 2m. from Buccari. The harbour, though sometimes dangerous to approach, owing to the dreaded bora, or northeast wind, affords good anchorage to small vessels, but competition from Fiume stroyed most of its trade during the 19th century. There is a naval-academy in the town with over 200 pupils. The staple dustry is boat-building, but there is an tive coasting trade in wine, wood, coal and fish, the tunny fishery being of some portance. The old castle of Buccarica is not far off, and further south is the ishing little port of Porto Re or Kraljevica. BUCCINA, a brass wind instrument extensively used in the ancient Roman army. It consisted of a brass tube bent into the shape of a broad C, measuring some ir to 12ft. in length, of narrow cylindrical bore, and played by means of a cup-shaped mouthpiece. After the fall of the Roman empire the art of bending metal tubes was gradually lost, and although the buccina vived in Europe both in name and in principle of construction during the middle ages, it lost its characteristic curved form. though we regard the buccina as essentially Roman, an instrument of the same type and of kindred name, but probably straight, was widely known and used in Persia, Arabia, and among the Semitic races. After a lapse of years during which records are almost wanting, the buccina reappeared all over Europe as the busine, buisine, pusin, busaun, pusun, posaun, busna (Slav), etc.; but whether it was a Roman survival, or a re-introduction through the Moors of Spain in the West, and the Byzantine empire in the East, there are no records to show.
The history of the development of the trumpet, the sackbut, and the trombone from the buccina will be found more fully treated under those headings.