 In 1774, in the same month of the death of Šćepan Mali, Mehmed Pasha Bushati attacked the Kuči and Bjelopavlići, but was decisively defeated and returned to Scutari.Documents, especially the letter of Ivan Radonjić from 1789, show that the "Montenegrins" were identified as Serbs, and that the Banjani, Kuči, Piperi, Bjelopavlići, Zećani, Vasojevići, Bratonožići were not identified as "Montenegrins".They were all mentioned only in a regional, geographical, and tribal manner, and never as an ethnic category.