Dražeta

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Dražeta (Cyrillic: Дражета), in some English sources also Drazeta, is a Serbian and Croatian surname. This surname is pretty rare, and originally could be found in five places in the territory of former Yugoslavia: Mošorin (Serbia), Stari Banovci (Serbia), Ivoševci (Croatia), Hodilje (Croatia), and Jajce (Bosnia and Herzegovina). People with this surname who live in Mošorin, Stari Banovci, and Ivoševci are Orthodox Serbs, while those who live in Hodilje and Jajce are Catholic Croats. The family "slava" (patron saint of the family) of Orthodox Dražeta is Sveti Stefan (Saint Stefan). There is also story that some Muslims with this surname live in western Bosnia near Prijedor, but this story is not confirmed.

1 Origin
2 History
3 References
4 See also

[edit] Origin

This surname derived from the South Slavic personal name Dražeta, which was first recorded in the 12th century in Herzegovina. Personal name Dražeta derived from its older variant Draže, which derived from Slavic word "drag" ("dear" in English). It is not exactly clear where and when the surname Dražeta appeared since first reliable data about surname dating from the 18th century. There is also a record from 1521 about a person in the village of Desići in Montenegro, whose name was Dražeta Radivoj, but it is not certain whether Dražeta was name or surname of this person.

[edit] History

Surname Dražeta was recorded in Mošorin in 1783 and in Stari Banovci in 1805. Dražeta living in these two villages considered each other a cousins and in the past they often visited each other during family celebrations. According to the "Hronika Starih Banovaca" (Sremska Mitrovica, 1989), Dražeta family came to Stari Banovci from Croatia. In Mošorin, in the year 1783, documents recorded Marko Dražeta, who was a son of Grigorije "šijak". In that time, "šijak" was a designation for immigrants from Croatia. Since surname Dražeta could be found in the village Ivoševci in Croatia (north Dalmatia), it is assumed that Dražeta family moved from this village to Mošorin and Stari Banovci. Confirmation for this origin is the same patron saint of the family (Saint Stefan) that is celebrated by Dražeta family in all three villages. There is also an interesting quotation from Dr Dušan J. Popović (Srbi u Vojvodini, knjiga druga, Novi Sad, 1990) that in the villages of Mošorin and Vilovo lived especially many "šijaks" originating from Dalmatia and Croatia.

[edit] References

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