5 години от смъртта на Свилен Протич

Свилен на с. Панайот Волово, Шуменско
(произходно от страна на майка му Здравка, рода на хаджи Симеонко хаджи Михов)

Заупокойната литургия ще се отслужи на 19ти януари в католическата църква "Успение Богородично" в София, ул. "Люлин планина" 5, от 18:30 часа. 

Вечна му памет! Бог да го прости!

По повод годишнината, помествам предговора на книгата "Поданици на Дукагин".

Поданици на Дукагин
от Свилен Протич

Предговор

Генеалогическите податки е събрал Свилен Протич от рода Алекси из с. Люма, окр. Кукъс, Албания. С прибавени над 70 интересни илюстрации на славни и обикновени личности, постройки, природни изгледи и факсимилета. Посочени са използваните стари и нови книги, албуми, архиви.

Записалият и преписал поместените родословни материали иска да се извини на читателите, какво поради своите занимания, не е поднесъл съдържанието в научен стил.

Тази първа част за рода се отпечата в столицата София през 2004 година от Рождество Христово. В замислената втора такава ще се отбележат очаквани родословни данни, прелюбопитни сведения за родословния край, имената на потомци от дъщери на същия род. За тях той няма да бъде по правата мъжка линия, наречена „златна“.

Като не се броят повечето роднини, споменати са имена главно на видни личности. Постъпи се така не от суета, а поради две причини. Първо, за мнозинството от тях се издири по нещо относно генеалогията им, което е в хармония с основната тема. Данните за останалите са сравнително оскъдни или много трудно достъпни, част от тях — в небългарски архиви. Но девиза на шахматистите е: всички сме от един род. Второ, историческите листости са определяли, право или криво, обществения живот в разните му области.

Въпреки всичко да не се забравя максимата, че въпроса е за идеята, а и дадено родословие не се изчерпва с отделен труд. То е продължителен процес, обслужван от не едно и две поколения, изпълнен с пречки и противоречия.

https://protitch-genealogy.blogspot.com/p/this-is-e-book-version-of-history-of.html 

5 years from the passing away of Svilen Protitch

The Holy mass for his soul will be celebrated at the "Assumption of Our Lady" catholic church in Sofia, on 19 January 2023.

In his commemoration, here I publish the English abstract of his book Subjects of Dukagin, written and translated in English by Svilen. 

May he rest in peace in Christ, in anticipation of the Resurrection!

Subjects of Dukagin 

(Abstract) 

(pages 29-32)

Some ancestors of the clan presented here have been subjects of several souvereign states, including the little-known Principality of Dukagin (13th -15th centuries), which lay in the catchment area of the Albanian river Drin. Part of the“Mijaci” tribe have been living for centuries along the river Luma, a tributary to the river Beli Drin , which itself flows into the river Drin, as well as in the immediate environs .According to the Brockhaus Encyclopaedia (see the article “Mijaci” in vol. 12 , 1971) they are related to the population who in the Middle Ages were known in Old High German as “Walh” . The German word “Walachen”, itself related to the name “Walh”, comes from the word “Welschen” (Romans) .The name “Walh” has been used later with regard to other nationalities. That is how were called the Norsemen who settled in Albania in the 13th century. In the 10th century Duke Rolon or Ralf took them from Norway (the town of Alesund) to Normandy in France.

A part of them migrated to the Apennine Peninsula. Prince Bohemund (he died in 1111) brought about 30 thousand of them to the Balkans. 

Until the time the Julian calendar was abandoned (1582) the “Mijaci” were papalists. Because of several reasons most of them at different times embraced Islam and almost all the rest - Orthodoxy in the diocese of the Orthodox Church of Serbia. The latter migrated chiefly in the 18th century to Macedonia, Serbia , Bulgaria and were completely Slavicized. 

The “Alexy” clan or a branch of it comes from them. Later, part of the descendants took the usual surname of “Protich”, which derives from the Serbian word “prota” (archpriest), i.e. a senior priest in the Orthodox Church, as they had such a man in their clan. The clan come from a faraway hamlet which belongs to the Village of Luma. Now it is called “the Bozhnja Quarter” of the Town of Kukes between the Village of Luma and the tower of Luma on the left bank of the river. After 1975 the tower was covered by the waters of the new dam, which covered also the mouth of the river Luma.

 Until the middle of the 19th century the people from the “Mijaci” tribe married only within their own tribe just as the Vikings used to do. They married to people who had another saint as patron of their clan. St. Michael, the Archangel, was the patron saint of the Alexy clan. The clan from the nearby village of Topoian had St. Elijah, the Prophet, as their patron saint. In all probability at least one forerunner of Alexy (along the direct male line), whose name has been forgotten, had married a woman from the Rotula clan or conversely.

The name of Rotula derives from the German word “rotula”(a scroll of letters, a file). Also other German words can be heard there. The most famous member of the Rotula clan is Koca Sinan Pasha, the grand vizier, i.e. the primeminister, of the Ottoman Empire. He was born in the Village of Topoian towards 1520 and died in Istanbul in 1596. It would be of interest to genealogy to know which of his ancestors are ancestors also of the present writer, who is approximately ninth cousin to Sinan Pasha. The Rotula clan are reported to have living descendants in Kossovo who bear the name of Rotlia. The information about their clan provides, though in an indirect and incomplete way, some missing links in this modest genealogical table.

The founder, Traian Alexy, was born around 1720. As a bachelor he settled in the Macedonian town of Kratovo, where he married and had three sons all of whom later had families of their own. The surname “Alexy” had been recorded in an Ottoman population register for the year 1416. The name may not be a unique name although the population then there was much less numerous. But it is certain that every time you see the name “Alexy” you see a name which is at least from the 15th century, because most people keep their surnames for centuries unlike the practice in Bulgaria.

In the 15th century George Castriota Skanderbeg, the Albanian prince, sent military aid to Ferante, King of Sicily. The latter’s father, Alphonsus V, King of Aragon and Sicily, was a supporter of Pope Benedict XIII de Luna, who also came from Aragon, and who was considered in Rome to be an antipope. And in the year 1416 mentioned above there was no other pope, legitimate or not.

Fr. Simon (the Town of Kratovo, circa 1745 – died after 1824) is one of Traian’s sons. Then only people from old clans of priests were ordained because they belonged to the Serb aristocracy. For several years until 1797 Fr. Simon ruled the Kratovo – Kyustendil Diocese, which had remained without a metropolitan. He had the position of “prota” (archpriest), though he had not been promoted to that rank. The Serbian Patriarchate included in its flock also people who were not Serbs. 

Of the Alexy clan I have discovered over 220 people, dead or living, not counting the descendants along a female line. Of those who are still living there are 9 who bear the name of Protich and 30 with newer surnames. Most of them live in Bulgaria and are Bulgarian by nationality. There are some who bear the surname “Alexiev” (after Alexy) and they believe that they are relatives but there is no reliable evidence for that. There is genuine but not very big hope that new information may be discovered in Albania. 

Svilen Protitch