Vlach Church
The Vlach Church is a Serbian Orthodox church built in 1450 in the village of Donji Kraj, on the Cetinje field, at that time part of Zeta.
Stećci
The church was built around 1450 on the site of a Bogomil necropolis that included around 150 stećci. Only two of these have been preserved to this day. Originally facing each other, they were recently reoriented to be side by side. According to some legends, recorded for the first time by Ljubomir Nenadović, the 17th-century military commander Bajo Pivljanin and his wife are buried beneath them. According to another legend and documentary evidence, the stećci mark the graves of the founders of the church — Ivan Borojević, born in Stari Vlah, and his wife Jelica.Origin of the name
One theory states that the church received its name from the Vlachs who guarded the cattle of Ivan Crnojević and built the church around 1450.There are several additional theories about the origin of the term Vlach in the name of the church. Some authors believe that the term in the name of this church is used as an exonym. Other theories connect the name of the church to the fact that the terms such as "Vlach's church" or "Vlach's rituals" were indicators of membership in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Orthodoxy or to demonym Vlach.