Petrit Latifi

In the book “ANTROPOGJEOGRAFIA E FSHATRAVE TË MALIT TË ZI TË SHKUPIT DHE TË MORAVËS SË EPËRME”, translated to “ANTHROPOGEOGRAPHY OF THE VILLAGES OF MONTENEGRO, SKOPJE AND UPPER MORAVA”, written by historian Feri Arifi, on page 74, we can read:

“Although Bllaca has contributed a lot to the Albanian cause. but, what did others not write about the Albanian villages. Foreign writings did not stop at the Muslim Albanian village. For example, Bllaca, Lubetenin and Korbliq, and other Albanian villages were those places that foreigners mentioned more than once in the parchments.

Look at this facsimile of Haxhi Vasileviqi:

“And in Montenegro itself, a major exception in this regard is the village of Kučevetja, Banjane and Čučer. As we will see, in that and in the centuries-old war for the region, our world was hardened by the Arnauts, who began to occupy the first there. In the villages of Bllacë (Montenegro), Ljuboten and Korbulić, are the worst Arnauts in the entire region.

The Serbian population throughout the region is devout. This is evident from the large number of new churches and from many religious customs. In churches and other places of worship they ask for salvation and life for their sick. They gladly give for the church and school: they are hung everywhere in the region. Until recently, there were butchers who served on feast days in monasteries and churches.”

Source: Dr. Jovan Haxhi Vasilević, SKOPJE and the Surroundings, Shtypshkronja Saint Sava, Belgrade 1930, p. 321.

This author writes: the worst villages are Bllaca, Luboteni and Korbliqi, but how did he know these villages, who told him that they were bad?Why until 1900 there was not a single confusion between these Orthodox Albanian families and villages and those Muslim Albanians?”