Petrit Latifi

Meropch or Neropch means “servant”

“… the indigenous people called Meropch, related to the Albanians , were exterminated, Serbianizing them, so that the name Meropch lost its original meaning and now meant serf; this was the name they gave to all kinds of serfs in Serbia, whether Albanian or …”¹

Neropch (Noropians) means “slave” in the Zakonik of Dushan

Source: ServiaUniversidad Autónoma de Nuevo León http://cdigital.dgb.uanl.mx

The Meropch or Neropch people were related to Albanians.

“Oneclass of peasants was free, but the laws mention another class, who are called meropch or neropch, a non-Serbian word, of which the meaning is obscure.² Somepersons suppose it originally indicated such cultivatorsof the soil as the Serbian (Albanian) immigrants may have found in the country after it had been harried by the Avars”.³

References

1. https://books.google.se/books?id=sIUoG7yWcRoC&pg=PA138&dq=alb%C3%A1nokkal&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjB28e8-r-LAxW6HxAIHav8BV44FBDoAXoECAQQAw ↩︎
2. The Slavonic Provinces Of Turkey-in-europe Volume Ii ↩︎
3. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Travels_in_the_Slavonic_provinces_of_Turkey-in-Europe_(1866)_(14578503099).jpg ↩︎