Gruemiri

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'''Gruemiri''' (altenatively, ''Gruemira'') is a small historical [[Albanian tribes|Albanian tribe]] (fis) in the former municipality of [[Gruemirë]] in the region of [[Malësia]].

== History ==
Historical and linguistic understanding about the patronym and toponym ''Gruemiri''/''Gruemirë'' increased as new, published archival records have become available. Traditionally, in Albanological research it has been seen as compound of ''grua'' (woman) and ''mirë'' (good). This has led to theories about the name may have been taken after the strong leadership a woman may have held in the tribe in the past. Another theory based in the rendering of the toponym in the defter of Scutari in 1485 as ''Kuruemira'' proposes an etymology as a compound of ''krua'' (well) + ''mirë'' (good). The people of the fis are called ''Gruemiras''.

The Gruemiri are first mentioned in the cadaster of Venetian [[Shkodra|Scutari]] (Shkodra) in 1416-7. They lived in two villages named after the community: Gruemira e Madhe (16 households) and Gruemira e Vogël (two households).<ref name="Zamputi"></ref> Gruemira e Madhe (''Grouemira grand'' in the original) is identified with the settlement of [[Gruemirë (settlement)|Gruemirë]] and Gruemira e Vogël with a neighbourhood of Grizhë, Gruemirë-Çezme.

Their mode of social organization was based on kinship ties as evidenced by the fact that the majority of household heads of their villages held the same surname, ''Gruemiri''. The community was headed by ''Pjetër Gruemiri''. The village of ''Gruemira e Madhe'' had four Catholic priests, two of them were members of the community: ''Johan Gruemiri'' and ''Aleks Gruemiri''.<ref name="Zamputi"/> Gruemira's church was dedicated St. Stephen (Shën Shtjefni). [[Viticulture]] was one of their main economic activites. It brought them in dispute with the [[pronoia]]r of Grizhë, Gjin Murari who tried to increase their feudal obligations and his share in their winegrowing productions. A committee of Gruemiri headed by Pjetër Gruemiri and their priest Johan, went to Scutari in 1416 and petitioned against the claim of Gjin Murari. Albano [[Contarini]], the Venetian governor accepted their petition.

Gruemira is again mentioned in 1485 in the defter of the [[sanjak of Scutari]]. It had sixteen households and four unmarried inhabitants. The community's village was part of the [[timar]] of Silahdar Iskender. A Catholic priest Dom Primus Gruemira is mentioned by [[Marino Bizzi]] in 1610 in [[Juban, Albania|Juban]]. In the Ottoman period, the Gruemiri began to convert to Islam. The two strongest feudal families in the [[Plav Municipality|Plav]]-[[Gusinje Municipality|Gusinje]] region (~90km to the northeast of Gruemirë) trace their origin to Gruemiri. The Rexhepagaj of [[Plav, Montenegro]] (now, Redžepagić-Rexhepagiqi) moved to Plav in the beginning of the 1650s where their ancestor took the Muslim name ''Veli'' when he converted. Rexhep [[Aga]] who gave the name to the family was a great-great-grandson of Veli. The Shabanagaj (now also known as Šabanagić) were related via marriage with the [[Bushati family]] of [[Shkodra]]. Shaban Aga, their eponymous ancestor was the son-in-law of [[Süleyman, sanjak-bey of Scutari|Sulejman Pasha Bushati]], [[sanjakbey]] of Shkodra. He was sent in Gusinje as the commander of the fortress around 1690. The Shabanagaj family owned large estates in [[Berane Municipality|Berane]]. [[Ali Pasha of Gusinje]], commander of the [[League of Prizren]] was a Shabanagaj and [[Jashar Rexhepagiq]], pedagogue in Kosovo, was a Rexhepagaj.

The historical ''fis'' became part of the wider [[bajrak]] of Kopliku in the early 19th century with Grizha, upper and lower Kopliku.

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