 The village itself lied above the Žegar field, from where the population had long "jumped into" (i.e.guerilla warfare) the Dinara, the Venetian-Ottoman border for centuries.His father was "harambaša" Janko Mitrović (1613–1659), another renowned anti-Ottoman rebel in Venetian service, noted commander of the "Morlach army" in the Cretan War (1645–1669).