Cuce
Cuce (Serbian Cyrillic: Цуце, Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [t͡sût͡se̞]) is a tribe (pleme) of Old Montenegro, situated in the historical Katun nahiya (Katunska nahija).
History
The toponym Cuce is first mentioned in 1431 in documents from Kotor, then again in a chrysobull of the Cetinje Monastery from the end of the 15th century. In Ottoman defters from 1521 and 1523, Cuce is mentioned as a village. The majority of inhabitants migrated to Cuce in the 16th and 17th century, from Old Herzegovina and Old Kuči. In 1718, after the Peace of Passowitz, the Cuce along with 9 other tribes of the Katun nahiya, became de facto independent from the Ottoman Empire.
Smail-aga Cengic wrote a letter in 1838 to Njegos, complaining about the Cuce who had raided Ottoman territory.[1]
Anthropology
Jovan Cvijić extensively studied the tribes of Old Montenegro. Cuce are divided into Upper Cuce and Lower Cuce. Most of the inhabitants of Upper Cuce descend from Herzegovina, while the inhabitants of Lower Cuce generally descend from the Kuči tribe.
- Kovači
- Kovačevići
- Krivokapići, brotherhood originally from Old Herzegovina
- Mijanovići
- Šakići
- Zviceri, originally from Old Kuči
- Simovići
- Živkovići
- Perovići
- Đuričići (oldest family in Cuce)
- Vujadinovići
- Roganovići
- Popovići
- Jovovići
- Ivanovići, brotherhood originally from Old Herzegovina, descending from Šćepan Ivanov; today all four brotherhoods are included in the Krivokapići; slava of St. Nicholas
- Mijatovići
- Ivanovići
- Zukovići
- Đukanovići, base in Krajište
- Đurovići
- Otaševići
- Tomanovići, originally from Old Kuči
The Djer-didije is a dance of the Cuce.[2]
People
- Slavko Perović, famous Montenegrin politician.
- Ilarion Roganović, Metropolitan of Montenegro (1860-1882)
- Krsto Zrnov Popović, leader of the 1919 Christmas Uprising
- Predrag Mijatović, former Montenegrin football player
- Ranko Krivokapić, Montenegrin politician
- Radovan Krivokapić, Montenegrin football player
- Miodrag Krivokapić, former Montenegrin football player
- Goran Krivokapić, Montenegrin classical guitarist
- Miodrag Živković, Montenegrin politician
- Dragoljub Đuričić, prominent Serbian and Montenegrin musician
- Nenad Knežević Knez, popular Montenegrin singer
- Miodrag Krivokapić, Serbian actor; by paternal ancestry
- Boris Krivokapić, Serbian professor of Public International Law and Human rights and author; by paternal ancestry
- Milorad Krivokapic, Serbian-Hungarian handballer; by paternal ancestry
References
- ↑ The poetics of Slavdom: the mythopoeic foundations of Yugoslavia - Zdenko Zlatar - Google Boeken. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
- ↑ Yugoslav survey - Publicističko-izdavački zavod "Jugoslavija" (Belgrade, Serbia) - Google Boeken. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
- Serb clans, "The clans of Old Montenegro"