that they were not completely accepted as members of the same ethnical and social society. In 14th-century records from the Bay of Kotor, the term Vlach (Nos Vlaci, cum Vlachis, dictorum Vlacorum) had an ethnic meaning along that of Slavs and Turks, according to Zef Mirdita (2009). Montenegrin historian Špiro Kulišić (1980) considered that in the business contracts it was necessary to establish the identity of the interlocutor, including ethnic and local. In 1296 people of Čeklići were identified as Vlachs (R. Kovijanić, 1963). Jireček argued that in Ragusan documents the katuns and vlachs (shepherds) were described as being part of a tribe, not constituting the whole tribe. Serbian anthropologist Petar Vlahović (1996) argued that the Slavs that had settled by the 7th century came into contact with the remnants of Romans (Vlachs), who later became a component part of all the Balkan peoples. Although the old Balkan population had for long retained particularities, they did not have greater influence on the Slavic tribal communities. Part of the old Balkan population that viewed themselves as Roman inheritors withdrew ahead of the Slavs from the interior to the littoral cities. Meanwhile, the Romans (Vlachs) who stayed in the mountains of the interior became subjects of the Slavs. These mountainous Vlachs, in their numbers or by culture, did not have noticeable effect on the development of society, and lesser so on the formation of a special ethnos. The Roman population's influence in the cities of Zeta was small, as evident also in Serbian royal charters from the 13th- and 14th centuries in which the ethnic groups of Serbs, Latins, Albanais, and Vlachs are mentioned, the order bearing witness to their numbers; the Albanians, who could not have been many, were more than Vlachs. According to him, the name Vlach also denoted the profession of shepherding, because along with ethnic Vlachs, there were Slavic shepherds who were called "Vlachs", not in an ethnical- but in economical status. Slavic geographical nomenclature, except for minor cases, is a certain confirmation, as Slavs settled along roads and rivers, and also katuns. Tribes Serbian geographer Jovan Cvijić listed 21 tribes in the territory of Old Montenegro, 7 in Brda (the Highlands), 16 in Old Herzegovina and 2 in Primorje (Montenegrin littoral). They were divided into two distinct groups; Old Montenegrin, and the tribes in the Highlands. The latter were concentrated in the northeast of Zeta river, and