Maleševci () was a historical tribe and a region in Old Herzegovina that existed in the Late Middle Ages. Origins The Maleševci are mentioned alongside numerous Montenegrin and Herzegovinian tribes in the 14th and 15th archives from Dubrovnik and Kotor, where they are described as Vlachs organized into a katun. The name Maleševci is the plural of Maleševac, itself derived from the personal name Maleš, the likely founder of the tribe. Apart from the tribe, Maleš is attested in two Vlach katuns from the Prizren estate, in the 14th century. It also gave the patronymic names Malešev and Malešević, and might be related to the toponym Maleševo, found in several locations in present-day Serbia and Bulgaria. History Middle Ages The earliest known written record referring to the tribe is a Ragusan document, written on January 14, 1374, addressing de Malleseva tribe-clan. They were part of broad offshoot of Vlachs in medieval Bosnia and Herzegovina of katunar Stanko Perutinić (first mentioned 1397) and his brothers and heirs in the end of 14th and beginning of the 15th century. The Maleševci katun developed on the territory of Rudina, Kuta and Korita, and the name Perutinić sometime replaced the name Maleševci, but the latter prevailed. In 1422 as katunars were recorded Klapac Stanković and Radosav Milićević, later Dubravac Milićević (1428), Stanoje Stanković (1434), Vukac Dubravčić (1461-1468). Stanko Perutinić had three brothers, Milić, Miloš and Hrebeljan, and with their heirs were vassals of Pavlović, while Stanko's heirs of Kosača (Sandalj Hranić, Stjepan Vukčić Kosača) noble family. From 1466 are recorded under Ottoman rule. They like Vlachs from other tribes sometime collaborated with Ottomans as slave agents. Modern era The united forces of partisans from Eastern Bosnia and Srem defeated Četniks from Majevica in Maleševci on November 28, 1942, and this event caused the beginning of restoration and domination of The Partisan Movement in Eastern Bosnia. Families Characteristic for the tribe-clan in Herzegovina is that all families have the Serbian Orthodox slava (patron saint feast day) of St. Ignatius. Family descendants of the Maleševci clan are: Aleksić Arsenijević Balmazović Bamburač Bamburać Banović Belić Blagojević Bogdanović Bosnić Božić Bukara Cacanović Čakarević Čavorović Čučuković Ćustić Dabić Dakić Damnjanović Dedijer Dizdarević Dimitrić Doljančević Dragić Dragutinović Drakul Drakula Dubovina Durić Đerić Đokić Đukić Đurđević Đurović Filipović Gačić Gagričić Gojković Golić Gospović Gruić Grujičić Grujić Ilić Ivanović Ivković Janković Jaramaz Jevđić Jevtić Jokić Jovanović Kalajdžić Kalem Klisarić Knežević Kočić Komlenović