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Ducagini
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Italian
Alternative forms
it Ducagino
it Docaini Ducaini
it Dukagjini modern reborrowing
Etymology
it sq Dukagjini. The variants without it -g- were used to refer to members of the branch of the family that moved to Capodistria.
Proper noun
mfbysense
it, the Dukagjini family, a noble Albanian family
it Marin Barleti Pietro Rocca Historia del magnanimo et valoroso signor Georgio Castrioto detto Scanderbego Venice F. & A. Zopini 1580 38v https://books.google.com?id=PahjAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA38-IA1 Vennero anchora i magnanimi Principi Nicolò, & Paolo Ducagini, amendue ne l'armi valorosi. Came thus the magnanimous princes Nikollë and Pal Dukagjini, both valorous in arms.
it Historia venetiana Giovanni Nicolò Doglioni Venice D. Zenaro 1598 425 https://books.google.com?id=sglmAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA425 A questa sendo mossisi per soccorrerla più di due mila soldati, tra' quai v'erano Nicolò Ducagino Albanese di molto nome, Antoniazzo Dotio, Ludovico Ziferino, Carlino, & Leone Schiavone capitani eccellenti, con Francesco Contarini Proveditore
it I fatti d'arme famosi Giovanni Carlo Saraceni 2 Venice D. Zenaro 1600 425v https://books.google.com?id=xwlwz_uBFqQC&pg=PA425-IA1 Famiglie più illustri dell'Albania erano i Castriotti, i Topia cognominati Carlovicchi, i Stresij, i Ducagini, i Spani, i Cernovicchi, gli Angeli, & i Dusmani. The most illustrious families of Albania were the Kastrioti, the Thopia surnamed Karlović, the Strez, the Dukagjini, the Shpani, the Crnojević, the Engjëlli and the Dushmani.
it obsolete it Dukagjin region r/Balkans
it Metochia
it L'ottomano Lazzaro Soranzo Milan P. Pontio 1599 85f. https://books.google.com?id=th08AAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA85 Sarebbe anco molto opportuno a' Turchi detto luogo, potendovisi condur facilmente legnami, per fabricar galee dalli monti di Ducagini in Albania The aforementioned place would also be very convenient to the Turks, for the ease of transporting wood, to build galleys on the Dukagjin Highlands
it L'ottomano Lazzaro Soranzo Milan P. Pontio 1599 175 https://books.google.com?id=th08AAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA175 Oltre che bene spesso li Sangiacchi danno lor causa di ribellione, o per depredarli, o per vendicarsene, o per haver scusa di non andar a guerra lontana, che per tale effetto quello di Ducagini non parte mai More often than it should be, the sanjackbeys give them reason to rebel, either [for the people] to rob them [= the sanjakbeys], or as reverge, or as an excuse not to go to a faraway war, and for this reason the one [= sanjakbey] of Dukagjin never departs [for war]