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Piperi ( cyrl, Пипери) is a historical
tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English language, English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in p ...
(''pleme'') of
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origin and a region in northeastern
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. Piperi is located between the
Morača The Morača ( sr-cyrl, Морача, ) is a major river in Montenegro that originates in the northern region in Kolašin Municipality under Mount Rzača. It meanders southwards for before emptying into Lake Skadar. Its drainage basin covers ...
and
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rivers up to the northern suburbs of the Montenegrin capital
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.


Origins

Originally an Albanian tribe ( sq, Pipri), the Piperi underwent a process of gradual
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into the neighbouring Slavic population. A
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report of the 17th century illustrates the final stages of their acculturation. Its author writes that the Bratonožići, Piperi, Bjelopavlići and Kuči:"'' nulla di meno essegno quasi tutti del rito serviano, e di lingua Illrica ponno piu presto dirsi Schiavoni, ch' Albanesi ''" (since almost all of them use the Serbian rite and the Illyric (Slavic) language, soon they should be called Slavs, rather than Albanians). Historical research has shown that Piperi is not a tribe (''pleme'') of common patrilineal ancestry. It formed in the period between the mid 15th century and the 16th century by communities that settled in different periods in Piperi, where they also found an already settled population.


History


Ottoman period

Piperi appears in the defter of the
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in 1485 and in 1497. The population of Piperi more than doubled from 167 to 347 households from 1485 to 1497. 121 of those households were of unmarried men and 38 of widows. This indicates that many of the newcomers were refugees from areas conquered in Montenegro and northern Albania. In the supplementary defter of 1497, there are several kin groups in the region of Piperi, which appears as a distinct
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divided in three
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s under local Christian Ottoman
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s. Many communities of the villages of Piperi were categorized as ''already settled'' or ''newcomers'' from other areas. In the villages, the communities formed clusters of households according to their kinship tries. This separation of settlements by kinship persisted even in the early 20th century. The settlements of Piperi in 1497 were Luška Župa (now Crnci), Drezga, Zavala, Dobriko, Mrke, Hrasnica, Bjelice, Duga, Brestica (river near
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), Rječica, Strahalić, Moračice, Radušev Do and Drenovica. Some villages were part of distinct communities, identified as katuns within the defter, those were Katun Bukumir, Katun Bušat (''Bushat'') and Katun Drenovica. All three katuns were located in the
Bratonožići The Bratonožići ( sr-Cyrl, Братоножићи, ) is a historical tribe (''pleme'') of Albanian origin in the Brda region of Montenegro. It appeared during the Ottoman period and was a captaincy of the Principality of Montenegro in the 19th ...
area. The Slavic anthroponymy at that time in Piperi is mainly attributed to the Lužani, while the Albanian anthroponymy to Bukumiri, Bushati and some smaller communities. Other communities like the
Macure The Macure were an Albanian tribe that lived on the territory on the part of Montenegro which is today known as Šekular. Bratonožići and Rovčani, Rovci. Like other non-Slavic tribes of Montenegro, they were either assimilated or expelled. The ...
and the
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had also settled in Piperi. Their traces can be identified mainly within the Lužani whom they had joined by that time in historical record. The toponym ''Macur jama'' (pit of Macura) in today's Piperi is linked to them. A part of the people of Piperi have retained in their traditions that before becoming Orthodox they were Catholics. Piperi was first mentioned in Venetian documents at the beginning of the 15th century.
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recorded a in 1614 that the Piperi had a total of 270 houses, of Serbian Orthodox faith. In 1613, the Ottomans launched a campaign against the rebel tribes of Montenegro. In response, Piperi along with the tribes of Kuči, Bjelopavlići, Vasojevići, Kastrat, Kelmend, Shkrel and Hot formed a political and military union known as “The Union of the Mountains” or “The Albanian Mountains” .In their shared assemblies, the leaders swore an oath of ''besa'' to resist with all their might any upcoming Ottoman expeditions, thereby protecting their self-government and disallowing the establishment of the authority of the Ottoman Spahis in the northern highlands. Their uprising had a liberating character. The 700 ''men in arms'' were commanded by Radoslav Božidarov.
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, the
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(1615–1618), had defeated the Serb pirates (
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), whom the Austrians had employed against the
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; they were forced to take refuge at
Nikšić Nikšić ( cnr, Никшић, italic=no, sr-cyrl, Никшић, italic=no; ), is the second largest city in Montenegro, with a total population of 56,970 located in the west of the country, in the centre of the spacious Nikšić field at the foot ...
and Piperi, and established themselves in the villages and tribes, under the later leadership of the Petrović-Njegoš family that held the office of Serbian Orthodox Metropolitan of Cetinje (later ''Vladika'', Prince-Bishop) after 1694. They fought Osman Pasha in 1732, and Mahmut Pasha in 1788. In 1796 they fought Mahmut Pasha again, in the
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(in modern
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). They fought Tahir Pasha around 1810. Prince-Bishop Petar I (r. 1782-1830) waged a successful campaign against the ''bey'' of
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in 1819; the repulse of an Ottoman invasion from Albania during the
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led to the recognition of Montenegrin sovereignty over Piperi. Petar I had managed to unite the Piperi and
Bjelopavlići Bjelopavlići ( cyrl, Бјелопавлићи; sq, Palabardhi), ) is a historical tribe (pleme) of Albanian origin and a valley in the Brda region of Montenegro, around the city of Danilovgrad. Geography The ''Bjelopavlići'' valley (also kn ...
with Old Montenegro. A civil war broke out in 1847, in which the Piperi, Kuci, Bjelopavlici and Crmnica sought to confront the growing centralized power of new prince of Montenegro; the secessionists were subdued and their ringleaders shot. Amid the
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, there was a political problem in Montenegro; Danilo I's uncle,
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, urged for yet another war against the Ottomans, but the Austrians advised Danilo not to take arms. A conspiracy was formed against Danilo, led by his uncles George and Pero, the situation came to its height when the Ottomans stationed troops along the Herzegovinian frontier, provoking the mountaineers. Some urged an attack on
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, others raided into Herzegovina, and the discontent of Danilo's subjects grew so much that the Piperi, Kuči and Bjelopavlići, the recent and still unamalgamated acquisitions, proclaimed themselves an independent state in July, 1854. Danilo was forced to take measurement against the rebels in Brda, some crossed into Turkish territory and some submitted and were to pay for the civil war they had caused.
Petar II Petrović-Njegoš Petar II Petrović-Njegoš ( sr-cyrl, Петар II Петровић-Његош, ;  – ), commonly referred to simply as Njegoš (), was a Prince-Bishop (''vladika'') of Montenegro, poet and philosopher whose works are widely considered ...
founded the police force (''gvardija'') throughout the
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, as part of his transformation from a tribal federation to a proper state; 26 existed in Piperi.


Late modern period

Piperi were one of the tribes that constituted the " Greens" (Zelenaši), a political faction that saw the unification of
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to
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in 1918, as the annexation of Montenegro, and instead supported an independent Montenegro. The Greens instigated the Christmas Uprising on January 7, 1919, which was crushed by Serbian troops. During World War II the majority of the tribe supported the
Yugoslav Partisans The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene: , or the National Liberation Army, sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska (NOV), Народноослободилачка војска (НОВ); mk, Народноослобод ...
. The Montenegrin committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party was dominated by Piperi clansmen prior to the war, and they were instigators of the July 1941 uprising. One of the most famous Piperi communists was Dr. Vukasin Markovic, a personal associate to Lenin, who came back after the October revolution from Russia to Montenegro, planning to stage a Soviet revolution. After its failure and his arrest, he fled to the USSR, where he assumed party duties.


Anthropology


Oral tradition

From the 19th century onwards, oral traditions and fragmentary stories were collected by writers and scholars who travelled in the region, about the early history of Piperi. An interdisciplinary and comparative approach of those stories with recorded historical material has yielded more historically-grounded accounts in 20th and 21st centuries.
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recorded the oral tradition about Piperi's origins in the mid 19th century. The same oral tradition with minor variations is preserved in other communities of the region. According to it the first direct male ancestor of the Triepshi was ''Ban Keqi'' son of ''Keq'', a Catholic Albanian who fled from Ottoman conquest and settled in a Slavic-speaking area that would become the historical Piperi region. His sons, ''Lazër Keqi'' (ancestor of Hoti)), ''Ban Keqi'' (ancestor of Triepshi), '' Merkota Keqi, Kaster Keqi'' (ancestor of
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) and ''Vas Keqi'' (ancestor of
Vasojevići The Vasojevići ( sh, Васојевићи, ) is a historical highland tribe (''pleme'') and region of Montenegro, in the area of the Brda. It is the largest of the historical tribes, occupying the area between Lijeva Rijeka in the South up to ...
) had to abandon the village after committing murder against the locals, but ''Keq'' and his younger son ''Piper Keqi'' remained there and ''Piper Keqi'' became the direct ancestor of the Piperi tribe. The name of the first ancestor, ''Keq'', which means ''bad'' in Albanian, is given in
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to only children or to children from families with very few children (due to infant mortality). In those families, an "ugly" name (''i çudun'') was given as a spoken talisman to protect the child from the "
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. About half a century later, the ethnologist
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travelled to the region and made multiple surveys of the tribe in which he recorded many of its customs and traditions. He also collected stories from the members of the tribe, regarding its origins and brotherhoods. According to the oral tradition, after the fall of the
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in the 15th century, one nobleman called ''Gojko'', with his family, left southern Serbia and came to
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. Four major brotherhoods of the Piperi are said to stem from him: the Đurkovići, Lazarevići, Petrovići and Vukotići. Erdeljanović identified that the oral tradition originated from the ''Lutovci'', the most important part of the tribe, and concluded that they were newcomers who stelled in the area after the fall of the
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. Erdeljanović also stated that the four main ''bratstva'' (brotherhoods) from the Rogami region, the Rajkovići, Stamatovići, Vučinići and Vukanovići, had become ''pobratim'' (
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s) and that they all celebrate the
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of
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.


Culture

In terms of traditional customs, up to the end of the 19th century, traces of a variant of the northern Albanian kanuns remained in use in Piperi. In the first half of 20th century,
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, while travelling in Montenegro, reported traces of bilingualism in the area of Piperi. According to her reports, although Albanian was no longer spoken in the area, some laments and oaths were still being sung and recited in Albanian.


Identity

In the 18th century, they were mentioned as a "Serbian Orthodox clan" in a historical and geographical survey from 1757 and a letter sent by the Clan federation to Russia from 1789. Documents, especially the letter of Ivan Radonjić from 1789, show that Montenegrins were then identified as Serbs, while the Banjani, Kuči, Piperi, Bjelopavlići, Zećani, Vasojevići, Bratonožići were not identified as "Montenegrins" but only as ''Serb tribes''. They were all mentioned only in a regional, geographical, and tribal manner, and never as an ethnic category. However, since the
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, the main part of people living in the Piperi area identify themselves as Montenegrins, with a small majority of them supporting the independence of Montenegro.


Brotherhoods and families

*Alagić *Aćimić *Božidarić *Buljević *Banović *Bašanović* *Bešević *Becić *Boljević *Bošković* *Božović *Bracanović *Brković *Živaljević *Žujović *Dakić *Dragićević *Dragišić *Đukić *Đurašević* *Đurović *Filipović *Gegić* *Gligorović *Goričan* *Grubeljić* *Ivanović *Ivančević *Jelenić *Jovanović *Jovović *Kaluđerović *Lakićević *Lakočević *Latković *Plačković *Piper *Lalić* *Ljumović *Makočević *Maudić *Marković *Matanović *Matović *Mijović *Miličković *Milićević *Milunović *Nikolić *Novaković *Novićević *Hot *Hotić *Otović *Hotović *Olević *Pajić *Petrović *Piletić *Piperović *Piperski *Popović *Pulević *Radević *Radonjić *Radovanović *Radunović* *Rajković *Raslović* *Ristović *Savović *Simović *Stanić* *Stojanović *Todorović *Tiodorović *Šćepanović *Šušović *Šujak *Vučinić *Vujović* *Vukanović *Vukotić *Šćekić *Vuletić* *Vuljević* *Vulikić *Vušutović* *Ćetković *Ćosić


Notable people

* Uzun Mirko Apostolović, was a Serbian voivode (military commander), with the bimbaša rank during the Serbian revolution. *
Tanasko Rajić Atanasije Rajić ( sr-cyr, Атанасије Рајић; 31 January 1754 – 6 June 1815), known by his nickname Tanasko (Танаско), was a Serbian ''vojvoda'' (commander) and revolutionary, the ''barjaktar'' (flag-bearer) in the First Serbi ...
, Serbian vojvoda (commander) and revolutionary. *
Arso Jovanović Arsenije "Arso" Jovanović ( sr-cyr, Арсо Јовановић; 24 March 1907 – 12 August 1948) was a Yugoslav partisan general and one of the country's foremost military commanders during World War II in Yugoslavia. Educated through the ...
, Yugoslav Partisan commander during World War II * Blažo Jovanović, Yugoslav communist and president of Montenegro *
Savić Marković Štedimlija Savić Marković Štedimlija ( sr-cyrl, Савић Марковић Штедимлија; 12 January 1906 – 25 January 1971) was a Montenegrin writer. He studied the history of Croatia and was an associate of the Lexicographic Institute in Zagr ...
, pro-Croatian Montenegrin ideologist and Ustasha regime collaborator *
Milutin Vučinić Milutin Vučinić ( sr-cyrl, Милутин Вучинић; 12 April 1869 in Gornji Rogami, Piperi, Montenegro – 14 September 1922 in Rome, Italy) was a Montenegrin soldier and politician. Biography Vučinić was the son of brigadier Mijajlo ...
, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Montenegro in Exile *
Boro Vučinić Boro Vučinić ( sr-cyrl, Боро Вучинић; born 1954 in Titograd) is the former head of the Montenegrin National Security Agency, as well as the former Minister of Defense and the former Minister of Urban Planning of Montenegro. As Minist ...
, Montenegrin politician and former defense minister * Ivan Milutinović, (1901—1944) was a
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general who died during
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. *
Mladen Žujović Mladen Žujović (1895—1969) was Serbian and Yugoslav attorney and professor of Law at Belgrade University. He was known as member of British-supported secret society Konspiracija and during the World War II as a member of the Central National ...
, member of Konspiracija *
Sreten Žujović Sreten Žujović ( sr-cyr, Сретен Жујовић; 24 June 1899 – 11 June 1976) was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician and veteran of World War I and long-time communist. Biography He was born into a wealthy family, and was a Serb by nation ...
, Serbian and Yugoslav politician *
Jovan Žujović Jovan M. Žujović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован M. Жујовић; 18 October 1856 – 19 July 1936) was a Serbian anthropologist, known as a pioneer in geology, paleontology and craniometry in Serbia. Biography After studying in Paris, he ret ...
, Serbian anthropologist. *
Milo Milunović Milo Milunović (6 August 1897 in Cetinje, Principality of Montenegro – 11 February 1967 in Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFRY) was a distinguished Yugoslav and Montenegrin painter. He dabbled in both Impressionism and Cubism. Biography Milunović ...
, notable Yugoslav painter. *
Tomislav Nikolić Tomislav Nikolić ( sr-Cyrl, Томислав Николић, ; born 15 February 1952) is a Serbian retired politician who served as the president of Serbia from 2012 to 2017. A former member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS), he d ...
, former
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*
Jevrem Brković Jevrem Brković (; 29 December 1933 – 24 January 2021) was a Montenegrin poet, writer, journalist, dissident and historian. Brković was one of the founders and member of Doclean Academy of Sciences and Arts (DANU), a parallel scholars' academy ...
, Montenegrin writer *
Balša Brković Balša Brković (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Балша Брковић) (born 25 April 1966) is a Montenegrin writer, essayist and theatre critic. He is also editor of cultural section of daily newspaper Vijesti, and one of the prominent members of the p ...
, Montenegrin writer, son of Jevrem * Veselin Vukotić, Montenegrin economist, professor, politician, and university rector


See also

*
Stephen of Piperi Saint Stephen of Piperi () (died May 20, 1697) is a Saint of the Serbian Orthodox Church. He was born into the Nikšić clan in the village of Kuti in Župa of poor but devout parents, Radoje and Jaćima Krulanović. According to tradition, he fir ...
, Serbian saint * Piperi, a settlement in Bosnia and Herzegovina


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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * {{refend Historical regions in Montenegro States and territories established in the 15th century States and territories disestablished in the 19th century Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro Tribes of Montenegro Montenegrin people of Albanian descent