They appear in historical record for the first time in 1330 in the Dečani chrysobulls as part of the Albanian (arbanas) katun (pastoral community) of Llesh Tuzi, in an area stretching southwards from modern Tuzi Municipality along the Lake Skadar to a village near modern Koplik.
As Balša III again sided with Mataguži and did not call for punishment for the killings, Hoti switched fealty to Venice in return for their support in 1416.
[4] The assembly was organized by Venetian vassal Stefan Crnojević to whom their settlement, the modern village of Mataguzi paid taxes.
In 1468, their leaders donated to the Vranjina Monastery a land area between Rijeka Plavnica and Karabež on the shores of Lake Skadar.
As the lake expanded and land was lost to the increasing level of water they had to relocate to the modern settlement.