 During the Middle ages, Budva had both Slavic and Albanian inhabitants who mostly were wine makers, planters, wood cutters and stone cutters, and were occasionally pirates.Through out Venetian Albania, the Catholic population of Budva declined as many converted to Islam or Orthodoxy as there was a lack of priests.In 1553, Giustinian described the town of Budva as too ""small and poor"" to support a religious elite.