by Adem Becerikli

The tribal division of settlements in Sanjak

in Bacic are mainly the Kliment (Kelmend) tribe
in Boroshtica the same Kliment
in Gluhavica the Shkrel tribe
in Crniš Hoti
in Graz Klimentet
in Devrec Klimentet
in Delimegje Klimentet
in Detane Kuci
in Delovo Kuci
in Dubov Hoti
in Gjerekare Kuci
in Zirc Shala
in Kovaçi Hoti
in Konica Shala
in Noqaj Shkreli
in Nadumce Kuci
in Raduhovc Hoti
in Ribaric Hoti
in Smoluqa Shala
in Spilani Hoti

The Albanians who came from the north of Albania (Selce and the surrounding area) were mainly Kliment, Shkrel, Hoti and Shale and a few of the Catholic Kuqi. The book talks about the location of the tribes in Sandzak.

Epaja near Shkodra is the homeland of the Klimenti, also known as the Highlanders. Mark Miljani said that the Klimenti were an Arban tribe, while the Archbishop of Budva Bici (1610.g.) notes that the Albanian Catholics were organized into these tribes: Kliment, Grude, Hoti, Kastrati, Shkrel, Shala and Gashi.

The Ottomans in the 1700s had dispersed a large number of them, having expelled 247 Klimenti families to Peshter, about which papal missionaries wrote in 1721. Two groups returned to Albania, some of them in 1707 and 1711., And the other group went in 1737.. and settled in Srem, where their descendants live as Croats.

The Klimenti are divided into Voklje, Nikci, Martinovic and Murici. They were Catholics and after a while they partially converted to Islam.
A smaller part adopted Orthodoxy (Aleksiqi from Borikovci in Bajvice, Jakovljevići from Znuše, Quriqet from Rogozna Glogjovic from Uji i Bardhe and Prekići from Dolova).

After the migration of the Muhajirs after 1875, they were completely mixed with Slavic Muslims. Since then they lost heir ethnic identity in the villages. In Peshter, Ugao, Boroshtica, Bacić, Devrec and Gradac, and today they still speak Albanian.