According to information provided by historian Mijo Igor Ostojić, the Dominiković family from Metković was granted a noble title by Emperor Franz Joseph. As the story goes, the emperor spent the night at their home during a journey through the Neretva Valley, which led to the family being ennobled.
The most prominent member of the family was Filip Miho Dominiković (Metković, 1893 – Buenos Aires, 1951), a diplomat and translator. He studied at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb and, after completing his studies, practiced law. With the establishment of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, he joined the diplomatic service and served as chargé d’affaires at the Yugoslav embassy in Buenos Aires. He held this position until the end of World War II, when he was dismissed due to his anti-communist views and open support for the monarchy.
Filip Miho Dominiković had three sons—Vudro, Knut, and Atila—but despite not living a long life, he outlived all three. He left behind a rich body of translation work, covering more than twenty works by prominent authors such as Niccolò Machiavelli, Luigi Pirandello, Gustave Flaubert, Ernest Renan, and Rabindranath Tagore. In Buenos Aires, he was the editor of Protest, a newspaper that was published irregularly starting in 1944.
His address was recorded as the third floor of the first building in Argentina constructed for rental purposes, located at O’Higgins 2319 in the Belgrano neighborhood.
Filip Miho Dominiković is remembered as the last representative of the only Neretva family to be granted a noble title during the era of Austrian Dalmatia.