Maleševci
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Maleševci (Малишевци) is a medieval Serb tribe located originally in Old Herzegovina, today's western Montenegro. First mention dates from a 14th century Ragusan document. They absorbed the Katuns of the Pokrajčići in 1403, Punoševići in 1402 and Repoševići in 1431. The patron saint protector of the Maleševci clan is St. Ignatius which is the best way they distinguish their ancestry and relatives from the others as through the centuries they have dispersed far and wide by losing their homogeneous tribal organization and becoming an ancestral clan with offspring coming under different tribal rule (Rudine, Piva).
[edit] Family Descendants
Family descendants of the Maleševci clan are: Aleksić, Banović, Bogdanović, Božić, Veletić, Vitomir, Vidojević, Vujičić, Vuković, Gojko, Gruić, Dedijer, Dragutinović, Drakul, Dubovina, Duda, Durić, Đerić, Đokić, Đurović, Ilić, Janković, Jaramaz, Kalem, Kalajdžić, Komljenović, Kovačević, Kočić, Krajinović, Krnja, Laičević, Majdov, Mandić, Matić, Milaković, Milović, Mirjanić, Nikolić, Novoselac, Obradović, Ogrizović, Pajić, Pantić, Paspalj, Pelkić, Perišić, Petrović, Radović, Radulović, Simić, Sjeran, Skender, Spasojević, Srna, Stajić, Stanišić, Stanković, Stojić, Supeta, Tanić, Tegarić, Timotijević, Ćorović, Filipović, Cvijanović, Čakarević, Čustić, Šipčić, and Šupić
[edit] Notable members of the clan
- Jefto Dedijer - Serbian Anthropologist
- Vladimir Dedijer - Tito's Biographer and historian
- Stevan Dedijer - Scientist
- Petar Kočić - Writer
- Vladimir Šipčić - The last member of the Chetniks in Yugoslavia-killed 1957
- Novak Mandić Studo-Historian
- Jovan Maleševac-Monk
- Milan Aleksic - Water polo player