Dražeta
Dražeta (Serbian Cyrillic: Дражета), in some English sources also Drazeta, is a fairly rare South Slavic surname and archaic personal name, originally found in five places on the territory of former Yugoslavia: Mošorin (Serbia), Stari Banovci (Serbia), Ivoševci (Croatia), Hodilje (Croatia), and Jajce (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
According to the "Hronika Starih Banovaca" (Sremska Mitrovica, 1989), Dražeta family came to Stari Banovci from Croatia.
In Mošorin, in the year 1783, documents recorded Marko Dražeta, who was a son of Grigorije "šijak".
There is also an interesting quotation from Dušan J. Popović in his book Srbi u Vojvodini (volume 2, Novi Sad, 1990) that in the villages of Mošorin and Vilovo lived especially many "šijaks" originating from Dalmatia and Croatia.
According to the book "Antroponimija Bukovice" (Živko Bjelanović, Split, 1988), population of eastern part of Dalmatian Bukovica (which include Ivoševci) moved to this area from western Bosnia in the end of the 17th century.
According to the book "Prezimena Srba u Bosni", largest number of surnames among Serbs and Croats was created in the 16th and 17th century, and that is a time when ancestors of the Dražeta family probably lived in western Bosnia.
According to the Dr. Nikola Zvonimir Bjelovučić ("Poluostrvo Rat (Pelješac)", Naselja i poreklo stanovništva, knjiga 11, Beograd, 1922), Dražeta family from Hodilje settled in this village "100 years ago" (i.e. c. 1822) and they came "from unknown place".
There are also stories that ancestors of the Dražeta family from Hodilje were in the past either Orthodox Christians or Muslims.
Surname Dražetić also exist in the villages Turbe and Imljani in central Bosnia, as well as in the several places in Croatia, mostly near Petrinja, Slavonska Požega, Sisak, Velika Gorica, and Zagreb.
In 1416, there is a record about prince Grgur Dražetić, who was a neighbour of the Ragusans and who ruled over part of Dalmatia that included Omiš.
There was also a record about Dražetić family of Orthodox faith in the village of Golubinjak near Daruvar in Slavonia.
The oldest recorded data about the personal name Dražeta is found in a stone inscription in Saint Peter's church in Crnče, Donje Čičevo near Trebinje.
It was made between 1177 and 1200 AD and says: "Poleta, Drusan (Družan) and Dražeta buried their mother in the days of glorious Duke Hramko (Hranko, Sranko)" ("Poleta, Drusan (Družan), Dražeta činu raku nad materiju (materom) u dani slavnoga kneza Hramka").
The list mention names of all supreme priests of Bosnian Church, from the middle of the 11th century to 1393.
There is one inscription from 1258 written on stećak (Bosnian medieval tombstone), which mention stonecutter who had name Dražeta.
Name Dražeta is found in the "Second hrisovulja of Dečani", and it was recorded in the village Dobra Reka, which was located in the territory of present-day Andrijevica municipality in Montenegro.
This is the inscription: Name or surname Dražetin is found in the "Third hrisovulja of Dečani", and it was recorded in the village Vlasi Sremljane, which was located in the territory of present-day Đakovica municipality in Metohija.
