Written by Petrit Latifi
Before 1912, the mountains of Misa, Visitor and Zeletin in the region of Prokletije were inhabited by Albanian malesori highlanders. There were also most likely Albanians around Beškeće as the name Beškeće has the Albanian toponym “Bjeshke” meaning “alp”. In the book “Zbornik za narodni život i običaje južnih slavena“, published 1971, we can read:
“As the snow melts, it rises higher and higher. It is interesting that the cattle from Martinović, which are raised to the pasture of Beškeće, come out to the Visitor later and without stage detentions. Similarly, the businessmen from Murina are raising the Misa pasture. At the beginning of our century, there were bloody disputes between Montenegrins and Malisors over the right to the Misa pasture. Visitor and Zeletin became Montenegrin state territory in the same year 1912. Previously, these were the Malisor Mountains. The remains of the rocky Malisor katuns on Misa can still be seen today. Cattle from the surrounding foothill villages come out to Bjelasica. On the western side rise the highest cattle herders from Kolašin, on the southern and eastern sides …”
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