Meanings
- alternativepluralplural onlyAlternative form of derbendci.
In addition, they may have gained leadership skills and prominence over other tribes because it was they, as derbendcis, who maintained and probably came to control the trade routes throughout the northern mountains.
2015, Robert Elsie, The Tribes of Albania: History, Society and Culture, →ISBN, page 282 more examples
In 1576 the derbendcis near Yalova applied to the Porte, saying that it was not possible for them to perform their duties properly, unless they were permitted to bear the tiifeng (musket), for highway robbers were armed with this weapon.
1975, Vernon J. Parry, Malcolm Yapp, War, technology and society in the Middle East, page 195The service of the derbendcis was spread widely throughout Macedonia, consisting as it did of providing safe passage through gorges and other places where passage was difficult on the more important military and trade routes.
1979, A History of the Macedonian People, page 85
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