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Origin in Montenegro: 1. Monastery Moracha, Đuđevina village (Manastir Morača, Đuđevina). Member of the one of Montenegrin Highland Tribes-Lower Moracha Tribe (Donjomoračani). Saint patron: Saints Sergey and Vah ( Sveti Srđ, Srđevdan, Sveti Vaho i Srđ).

Originate path before Manastir Moracha settlement:

2.Liješnje, Rovca,

3.Liješnje Lješanska nahija,

4. Čevo;

5. Popovo polje/Dubrovnik (?) and Vojinovich (Voinovich family as ancestor family).

Other Tripković families in Montenegro:

a) Tripković from Piva, Plužine (Nikšić) possible originate from Tripković from Monastery Morača, Saint patron Saint John the Baptist, Sveti Jovan Krstitelj).

b) Tripković from Boka Kotorska and Mojdež (Herveg Novi-Saint patron is Saint Stephen; Sveti Stefan).

c) Tripković from Serbia (Prijepolje, Nova Varoš, priboj, Sjenica) originate from Tripković family in Monastery Morača. Saint patron is Saint Peter and Paul (Sveti Petar i Pavle, Petrovdan).

A South Slavic surname derived from the name, Tryphon, from the Greek, Τρύφων. In Serbia the name Tripko is rare, held by about eighty people. The meaning of the name is 'softness' or 'delicacy'. Thus the surname literally means 'the son of the soft/delicate one'. The occurance of the name in the South Slavic world was due to the dissemination of the orthodox religion, which displaced many ethic Slavic given names. Many South Slavs named their children after saints. In this case the saint is Saint Tryphon, who was born in Phrygia, now in Turkey, but was then culturally close to that of the Hellenic culture. His holy day in the Orthodox Church is the 1st of February. He was known as a healer and was beheaded for converting Romans.