villages in Montenegro and northern Albania; their respective chiefs and men in arms, as well as demographics. Kuči, Bratonožići and part of Plava were under the soldiers of Medun, the spahee, but the commander was not named; and the highlanders would pay the Ottoman officials a portion of their income. Medun was described as a little town on a hill, strategically situated, but badly guarded and in ruins, of which fortification was held by the Dizdar Aga and 200 "very war-like people". It was one of 8 cities of the Sanjak of Shkodra. In 1688 the tribes of Kuçi, Kelmendi and Pipri captured the town defeating 2 Ottoman counter-assaults capturing many supplies on the process before retreating. Modern The famous writer, and Kuči tribe leader, Montenegrin duke and hero Marko Miljanov (1833–1901) lived at the foot of walls of the town and the fortress. He was buried in the acropolis in front of the small church dedicated to Archdeacon Stephen, built in Miljanov's honour the same year of his death. A rebellion in nearby Herzegovina (1875-1878) sparked a series of rebellions and uprisings against the Ottoman forces in Europe. Montenegro and Serbia agreed to declare a war on Turkey on 18 June 1876. Nichola I's cousin had twice routed the Ottomans at Medun. A Montenegrin victory in Danilograd in Zeta, and the capitulation of Medun, concluded the first year of the Montenegrin–Ottoman War (1876–1878). In 1877/1878, Nicholas I of Montenegro acquired a seaboard on the Adriatic, and on 13 January 1878 Nicholas I and Ahmed Muhtar Pasha signed a truce, ending the war. Medun has not yet been studied sufficiently. Not only that it is interesting for its distant and rich past, it also represents an object significant for studying of all cultural epochs, from prehistory to the Middle Ages. Demographics In the Ottoman Defter of 1485, Medun had 15 homes. In the Ottoman defter of 1582, the settlement was majority Muslim with only 2 Christian households. Medun had at least 200 inhabitants in 1614. Total: 108 inhabitants (2003 census) Serbs: 74 (68,51%) Montenegrins: 32 (29,62%) Yugoslavs: 1 (0,92%) Unknown: 1 (0,92%) According to the 2011 census, its population was 100. Notable people Marko Miljanov (1833–1901), writer, born in the village Milica Miljanov (born ca. 1860), soldier and WWI heroine References Sources Wilkes, J. J. The Illyrians, 1992, "Становништво словенског поријекла у Албанији" - Зборник радова са међународног научног скупа