Skenderbeg Crnojević

Stefan ( Staniša ) Crnojević (also: Skanderbeg, † 1530) was the last descendant of the dynasty Crnojević that had prevailed over a century Montenegro. From 1513 to 1528 he was the Ottoman Sanjak Bey of Montenegro.

Stevan ( Staniša ) Crnojević was the third-born of three sons of the ruler of Zeta ( 1465-1490 ), Ivan I. Crnojević. His grandfather Stefan I. Crnojević was married to sister Marija Kastrioti Skanderbeg Kastriotis.

Stevan ( Staniša ) took place in Istanbul as a teenager to Islam, partly because he had a third son little prospect of the throne. He got the Turkish name Iskender Bey, after Alexander the Great. Surprisingly, he was employed by the Ottomans in 1513-1528 as the Sanjak Bey of Montenegro. The Sanjak of Montenegro was finally resolved in the early 17th century and part of the Sanjak of Shkodra.

The Montenegrins kept Skenderbeg Crnojević negative reminder: because of its exploitative tax policy should be 1519 a popular uprising erupted, the down beat the Ottomans. After that, he is said to have ruled even more ruthless, until his death in 1530.

According to Vuk Karadžić there is a Montenegrin folk song is sung in the Skenderbeg Crnojević as the founder of the North Albanian tribe Bushati ( in Montenegro Bušatlić or Bušlatović ). Some Bushatis later served in the 17th century, as viziers and army commander of the Ottoman Empire.

In Montenegro, Albania and Serbia was formed by inter-ethnic marriages, alternating Slawisierungen and Albanisierungen early an Albanian -Slavic symbiosis. In many Albanian and Montenegrin clans there are traditions about common ancestry. The clan Ndrekaj ( Drekalović ) of Slavicized Albanian tribe Kuqi ( KUCI ) maintains the tradition that they descended from Skanderbeg Kastrioti.