Paštrovići

The Paštrovići (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Паштровићи, pronounced [pâʃtrovitɕi]; Italian: Pastrovichi or Pastrovicchi) is a historical tribe and region in the Montenegrin Littoral.

[5] Mayhew and Calić considers them to have been an Albanian tribe,[6][7] while according to Ćirković, the Paštrovići were Vlachs who had until the middle of the 14th century, been culturally and linguistically Slavicized,[8] a thesis supported by Kaser.

[5] The name is first attested in a text dating to 1355,[9] regarding nobleman Nikolica Paštrović in the service of Serbian emperor Stefan Dušan (r. 1331–55), sent to the Republic of Ragusa.

[9] During the First Scutari War (1405–13) they were under control of the related Đurašević family whose members held the most prestigious positions on the court of Balša III.

[11] In the Second Scutari War (1419–23) they at first served the Serbian Despotate, until January 1423 when the Republic of Venice managed to bribe them and other tribes in the region over to the Venetian side.

[14] In the Bosnian-Ragusan war for the lands of Konavle, the Ragusan republic hired 200 Albanian mercenaries from Paštrovići (ex Albanensibus de loco Pastrouichi), who along with soldiers from other regions where contracted for a period of 2 months, and were paid 5 perpero per man.

In 1571, the judge Rado Paštar is mentioned, and in 1609 Kristina, daughter of Nikola Pastra, who converted to the Catholic faith.