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Cuce (Serbian Cyrillic: Цуце, Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [t͡sût͡se̞]) is a Serb clan of Old Montenegro. Cuce are first mentioned in 1431 in documents from Kotor, then in 1521 and 1523 in Ottoman defters. Jovan Cvijic, the Serbian ethnologist and geographer registered the Cuce as a clan of Old Montenegro, of the Katunska nahija-region.
Cuce are divided into Upper Cuce and Lower Cuce. Most of the inhabitants of Upper Cuce descend from Herzegovina, while the inhabitants of Lower Cuce generally descend from the Kuči tribe.
In 1718, after the Peace of Passowitz, the Cuce along with 9 other tribes of the nahiye of Katun, became de facto independent from the Ottoman Empire.
Smail-aga Cengic wrote a letter in 1838 to Njegos, complaining about the Cuce who raided Turkish territory.[1]
The Djer-didije is a dance of the Cuce.[2]
Contents
Descendants
- Kovači
- Kovačevići
- Krivokapići
- Zviceri (descend from Kuči)
- Simovići
- Perovići
- Đuričići (oldest family in Cuce)
- Vujadinovići
- Roganovići
- Popovići
- Jovovići
- Đukanovići
People descending from Cuce
- Slavko Perović, famous Montenegrin politician.
- Krsto Zrnov Popović, leader of the 1919 Christmas Uprising
- Predrag Mijatović, former Montenegrin football player
External links
References
- Serb clans, "The clans of Old Montenegro"
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