Maleševci

Maleševci
Ethnicity Serb
Current region south-western Montenegro and south-eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina
Place of origin

Old Herzegovina

Notable members

Jevto Dedijer
Petar Kočić
Vladimir Šipčić

Traditions Slava of St. Ignatius (January 2, Old style: December 20)
Estate Malina
Name origin and meaning derived from eponymous founder Maleš

Maleševci (Serbian Cyrillic: Малешевци) is a historical region and tribe in Old Herzegovina, in the Middle Ages. They lost their tribal organization and came under the overlordship of Rudine and Piva in the late 15th century. Characteristic for the clan is that all families have the slava (patron saint feast day, Serbian tradition) of St. Ignatius, and those families that claim descent, but do not have the same slava, are not regarded Maleševci. The clan is one of the most widespread.

History

Vojvoda Maleš

The first written record is a Ragusan document, written on January 14, 1374, addressing "de Malleseva" clan. The eponymous founder was Serbian vojvoda ("duke") Maleš, who hailed from what is now Herzegovina. In the second half of the 14th century, he received a voivodeship in Berovo, then part of the Serbian Empire (modern eastern R. Macedonia). Maleš participated and was injured in the Battle of Maritsa (1371), in which the Serbian army was defeated by the Ottomans, and many of the Serbian nobility in Macedonia became Ottoman vassals. Because of the Ottoman advance, he burnt his house and settled in Drenica, in Kosovo, and participated in the Battle of Kosovo (1389), of which outcome was inconclusive, though a long-term strategic victory for the Ottomans. Maleš again burnt his house and settled in Malina (on the road between Bileća and Trebinje), where he lived as a merchant and hunter. According to a contemporary document, he had the canyon of Ljubotinja near Kručice cleared. He renovated the Dobrićevo monastery. He died at a very old age, at the beginning of the 15th century.

15th century

The Maleševci first held the Ravno mountain, but exchanged it with a Pivan voivode for the Kručica mountain near Volujak. They traded with the Republic of Ragusa and transported goods with caravans from the interior of Dubrovnik (in modern Croatia), to Arilje (in modern Serbia) and further. They absorbed the katuns of the Pokrajčići in 1403, Punoševići in 1402 and Repoševići in 1431.

The clan is also eponymous to the Maleševo mountain in Macedonia.

Modern

The united forces of partisans from Eastern Bosnia and Srem defeated Četniks from Majevica in Maleševci on November 28, 1942, and this event caused the beginning of restoration and domination of The Partisan Movement in Eastern Bosnia.[1]

Families

Family descendants of the Maleševci clan are:

People

Notes

  1. ↑ Koljanin, D. 2005, pp. 92-130.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 2.31 2.32 2.33 2.34 2.35 2.36 2.37 2.38 2.39 2.40 2.41 2.42 2.43 2.44 2.45 2.46 2.47 2.48 2.49 2.50 2.51 2.52 2.53 2.54 2.55 2.56 2.57 2.58 2.59 2.60 2.61 2.62 2.63 2.64 2.65 2.66 2.67 2.68 2.69 2.70 2.71 Confirmed by Malesevci.rs family list
  3. ↑ http://malesevci.rs/bratstva-porodice-cir/opsti-pregled-cir

References

  • Bačko Aleksandar, Maleševci – rod koji slavi sv. Ignjatija, Zbornik za srpsku etnografiju i istoriju, knj. 1, Udruženje građana „Srpski despot“, Beograd 2007.
  • Dedijer Jevto, Bilećske Rudine, S. K. A, Srpski etnografski zbornik 5, Naselja srpskih zemalja 2, Beograd 1903, 802 - 806.
  • Dedijer Jevto, Hercegovina, antropogeografske studije, Biblioteka „Kulturno nasljeđe“, Sarajevo 1991.
  • Mandić Novak – Studo, Maleševski Mandići, Gacko 2001.
  • Mandić Novak – Studo, Srpske porodice Vojvodstva svetog Save, Gacko 2000.
  • Koljanin, D. 2005, "The conflict between Partisans and Četniks in Eastern Bosnia in 1942", Spomenica Istorijskog arhiva Srem, no. 4, pp. 92–130.
  • Danilović, U. (1985) O vojnim i političkim preduslovima i okolnostima bitke protiv četnika u selu Maleševci 1942. godine. in: Bitka na Meleševcima, 28. XI godine 1942, Tuzla, str. 70-71
  • Subotić, V. Velika pobjeda partizana nad četnicima na Maleševcima. in: Istočna Bosna u NOB-u 1941-1945, knj. I, str. 758-758
  • "Bratstvo Aleksić i istoplemenici `Maleševci` iz stare Rudine u Hercegovini ( 1285 - 2000. ) - Prilog za etnografsku monografiju o Maleševcima", Konstantin - Kosto R. Aleksić, samoizdat u tri kucana primerka, Vrbas, 2000.
  • "Istorija Maleša i Maleševaca, sa slikama i pjesmama", Filip Aleksić i Božo Skender, autorsko izdanje, Vrbas, 1966.
  • "Hercegovina i Hercegovci", Jevto Dedijer, Letopis Matice srpske, knjiga 289, 1912.
  • "Stare seoske porodice u Hercegovini", Dr Jevto Dedijer, Glasnik zemaljskog muzeja u Bosni i Hercegovini XIX, Sarajevo, 1907.

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