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Vlasi Nenkovići
Nenkovići Vlachs

Author(s): Esad Kurtović
Subject(s): Cultural history, Ethnohistory, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: Nenkovići; Vlachs; Kosača; 15th century;

Summary/Abstract: Nenkovići Vlachs lived in Ivica village located southeast of Ljubinje Herzegovina. Initially, they were vassals of the Bosnian king, and in the 1419th the vassals of Duke Sandalj Hranić and his nephew Duke Stephen Vukcica, nobles from the Kosača family. Nenkovići Vlachs arise branching from katun of vlach Burmaz. Archival sources recorded one century of their existence since the end of 14th until the end of 15th. They were dealing with the usual activities: transporting goods from Dubrovnik in the interior of Bosnia, selling livestock, participating in trade credit and road robbery of Dubrovnik merchants. Known developmental line starts 1376th with Katunar Krajslav Mrđenović. The main link in their further existence is his son Nenko Krajsalić (1398-1436), Katunar who provided a name Nenkovići. His successor was Miliša Nenković (1438). In the seventies of 15th century Katuni Miliša brothers and Radič Bogišić belonged to Nenkovići Vlachs.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 38
  • Page Range: 153-164
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bosnian