The Albanian origin of the Montenegrin tribes Mahina, Malonšići, Primorje, Vasjoevic, Piperi and Ozrinici
“Pure shepherd blood also cooperates in creating the germs of Montenegrin tribal formations. The names Piperi and Moguši speak for the cooperation of Romania. The names of some old Montenegrin brotherhoods show a strong hint of Arbanian blood. Such were the Mataguži near Podgorica in 1335, Mahina along the Primorje in 1435 whose name reminds of Illyrian Mávot nädalje Malonšići in the valley of the river Zeta and the long-extinct Mataruga, so called probably because of their spears, which today live in the stories of Grahovo.
In this respect, the stories that trace the origins of the Arban and Serbian tribes to common ancestors are also based on them. According to them, for example, today’s Serbian Vasojevici, Piperi and Ozrinići and the Arbanian Krasnići and Hoti come from the five Ndue brothers, although it is generally true for all these tribes that they became from Katun that however, their genesis in detail is much more complicated … “1
The “Mrkojevic” tribe derives from the Albanina name “Pamal’ok ne-Mal’ok.”
“Another common name that the Arbanas in the middle and in the north gave themselves was Malok. In the fertile and waterlogged old parish of Prapratna on the sea between Bar and Ulcinj, studded with arbanski, the long-haired Serbian tribe “Mrkojević” (Li Mirchoe de Marchois) aka “Marchoi” alli “Marcovich” appeared in the 15th and 16th centuries.
In Ulcinj of Arban and from Arban’s neighbors, that tribe was called Pamal’ok ne-Mal’ok. According to this, Venetian monuments from 1420 onwards regularly record the Mrkojevics under the name “pamaliot, pamaleot, ypamaliothi, tamalioti, pompalioni, pampalioni.”
From that, it is easy to extract the name “Malok” (alb: “mal” (serbian: brdo) and the suffix “ok” or “brdjanin”, which the northern Arbanians gave themselves. It is a family name directly preserved in Ulcinj in 1376 by Lazarus Malliocus, a city notary. Today, this word lives on as a mocking nickname for Gege in Berat, which means fool.
In the Middle Ages, it had the same meaning as Malesur, which word appears in the Skadar cadastre in 1416 as a surname in the village of Grisa under the Marinaj hill, Petro Malizori Todoro Malizori, and even today it refers to a large Arban tribe.”2
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Balkan Academia 