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'''Kakarriqi''' (Kakarići, {{lang-cyrl|Какаричи}}, or Chacharucha and Cataruci in [[Italian language|Italian]]) was an [[Albanian tribes|Albanian tribe]] (''fis'') of the [[Middle Ages]]. They inhabited the [[Shkodër|Mbishkodër]] plain, stretching up into the grasslands of [[Zeta plain|Zeta]].

==Toponyms==
There are multiple examples of the term Kakarriqi being used as a toponym. The toponym of Kakrok or Kakruk of [[Skrapari]] could perhaps be traced to the Kakarriqi tribe. There exists a 'Kakarriqi' toponym (labelled ''Cacaricchi'' in 1610) between [[Shkodra]] and [[Lezhë]], as well as a hill called 'Kakarriqi' in [[Suma (tribe)|Suma]] and a village in [[Mazreku|Mazrek]] of the same name; Mazreku also contains the toponym of 'Kakaruka', which may be related.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Valentini |first1=Giuseppe |title=Il Diritto delle Comunità - Nella Tradizione Giuridica Albanese |date=1956 |publisher=Vallecchi Editore |location=Florence |page=279 |url=https://www.dimarcomezzojuso.it/autore.php?id=36}}</ref>

==History==
In 1304, the Kakarriqi appear as the ''Cataruci'' in Italian sources and were described as a tribe who submitted to the [[Kingdom of Naples]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Valentini |first1=Giuseppe |title=Il Diritto delle Comunità - Nella Tradizione Giuridica Albanese |date=1956 |publisher=Vallecchi Editore |location=Florence |page=279 |url=https://www.dimarcomezzojuso.it/autore.php?id=36}}</ref> In the first half of the 15th century, the Venetian Cadastre of Shkodra mentions the present-day village of Kakarriq near [[Lezhë]], as well as the families of ''Andrea Kakarriqi'' the younger in the village of [[Dajç, Shkodër|Dajçi]], ''Bitër Kakarriqi'' in the village of Pulaj near [[Velipojë]] and ''Dimitër Kakarriqi'' in the town of [[Baleč|Balec]].<ref name="Zamputi">{{cite book |last1=Zamputi |first1=Injac |title=Regjistri i kadastrēs dhe i koncesioneve pēr rrethin e Shkodrës 1416-1417 |date=1977 |publisher=Academy of Sciences of Albania |url=https://www.academia.edu/33718705/AKADEMIA_E_SHKENCAVE_E_REPUBUKES_TE_SHQIPERISE |pages=264|accessdate=29 January 2020 |ref=Buda}}</ref> In 1455 the Kakarriqi are mentioned as one of the communities that entered into an agreement with the [[Republic of Venice|Venetians]].<ref name="Pulaha">{{cite journal |last1=Pulaha |first1=Selami |title=Kontribut për studimin e ngulitjes së katuneve dhe krijimin e fiseve në Shqipe ̈rine ̈ e veriut shekujt XV-XVI' [Contribution to the Study of Village Settlements and the Formation of the Tribes of Northern Albania in the 15th century] |journal=Studime Historike |date=1975 |volume=12 |page=90|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q4khAQAAMAAJ |access-date=30 January 2020 |ref=Pulaha}}</ref>

In 1482, a certain ''Chacharucha'' was documented as the leader of the [[stratioti]] in [[Durrës]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Valentini |first1=Giuseppe |title=Il Diritto delle Comunità - Nella Tradizione Giuridica Albanese |date=1956 |publisher=Vallecchi Editore |location=Florence |page=279 |url=https://www.dimarcomezzojuso.it/autore.php?id=36}}</ref> In the 1485 cadastre of Shkodra, the old village of ''Kakarriq'' was registered with ''Jon Neraçi'' as its head. The village possessed 13 plots of arable land, given to ''Jon Neraçi'' as a concession by Benedict [[Contarini|Benedict Contarini]] under the condition that each year five sacks of [[millet]] would be paid to him. The register of the village also lists ''Gjergj'', ''Jon'' and ''Petro'', all with the surname ''Kakarriqi''.<ref name="Zamputi2">{{cite book |last1=Zamputi |first1=Injac |title=Regjistri i kadastrēs dhe i koncesioneve pēr rrethin e Shkodrës 1416-1417 |date=1977 |publisher=Academy of Sciences of Albania |url=https://www.academia.edu/33718705/AKADEMIA_E_SHKENCAVE_E_REPUBUKES_TE_SHQIPERISE |pages=100–101|accessdate=29 January 2020 |ref=Buda2}}</ref> The plot of land of ''Kakarriq Duz'' is also mentioned along with two families with the surname Kakarriqi in the villages of [[Shënkoll]] and Kurta. In the 16th century the Kakarriq tribe had greatly increased, with the village of ''Kakarriq'' numbering 248 Christian houses, 21 bachelors and 2 Muslim families in 1582. In addition there was already a second village named ''Kakarriq'' or ''Borad'', which as the name suggests, was inhabited by members of this community, and a third village named ''Kakarriq'' registered together with the village of ''Stanković'' in the area of [[Podgorica]], where according to the agreement of 1455, lay the realm of the Kakarriqi. It is believed that this village would be the territory where the branch of the ''Kakarriq'' community mentioned in the agreement between Venice and the Zeta tribes was established.<ref name="Pulaha2">{{cite journal |last1=Pulaha |first1=Selami |title=Kontribut për studimin e ngulitjes së katuneve dhe krijimin e fiseve në Shqipe ̈rine ̈ e veriut shekujt XV-XVI' [Contribution to the Study of Village Settlements and the Formation of the Tribes of Northern Albania in the 15th century] |journal=Studime Historike |date=1975 |volume=12 |page=90 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q4khAQAAMAAJ |access-date=30 January 2020 |ref=Pulaha2}}</ref> The hamlet of ''Kakarićka Gora'', a rounded elevation rising above the surrounding land in modern Podgorica, corresponds to the village of Stanković.

[[Mariano Bolizza]] in his voyage in the area in 1614 recorded that ''Gjon Saliki'' held 150 houses of the ''Cacharichi'', with 400  soldiers.<ref>{{cite book|title=Early Albania: A Reader of Historical texts, 11th-17th Centuries|date=2003|publisher=Robert Elsie|pages=155|isbn=9783447047838|url=http://www.albanianhistory.net/1614_Bolizza/index.html}}</ref>

==Distribution==
Existence of settlements named ''Kakarriq'' in Zeta and Shkodër shows that this community has migrated between these two areas, and that they served it as summer and winter pastures for livestock.<ref name="Pulaha3">{{cite journal |last1=Pulaha |first1=Selami |title=Kontribut për studimin e ngulitjes së katuneve dhe krijimin e fiseve në Shqipe ̈rine ̈ e veriut shekujt XV-XVI' [Contribution to the Study of Village Settlements and the Formation of the Tribes of Northern Albania in the 15th century] |journal=Studime Historike |date=1975 |volume=12 |page=90|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q4khAQAAMAAJ |access-date=30 January 2020 |ref=Pulaha3}}</ref> Such patterns of movement indicate a [[Pastoralism|pastoralist]] way of life.

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