 The largest settlement in the plain is the town of Danilovgrad which got name by Prince (Knjaz) Danilo Petrović.The eponymous founder, "Bijeli Pavle" ("White Paul"), is said to have fled Metohija from the Ottomans, and settling in Luška župa (, later known as "Zeta").Bjelopavlići are first mentioned in a Ragusan document dating to 1411, when they, together with the Malonšići, Ozrinići and Maznići, had looted a ship of the Republic of Ragusa (from Dubrovnik).