Gorno Palčište

Gorno Palčište
Горно Палчиште
Pallçisht i Epërm
Village
Gorno Palčište
Location within Republic of Macedonia
Coordinates: 41°59′N 20°55′E / 41.983°N 20.917°E / 41.983; 20.917
Country North Macedonia
Region Polog
Municipality Bogovinje
Population
 (2021)
 • Total
1,127
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Car platesTE
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Gorno Palčište (Macedonian: Горно Палчиште, Albanian: Pallçisht i Epërm) is a village in the municipality of Bogovinje, North Macedonia.

History

Gorno Palčište is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 57 Christian households, 2 bachelors and 2 widows.[1]

According to the 1467-68 Ottoman defter, Gorno Palčište exhibits mixed Orthodox Christian Slavic and Albanian anthroponyms, with a predominance of names belonging to the Slavic sphere, alongside a small amount of Aromanian names present. Some families had a mixed Slav-Albanian anthroponomy.[2][3]

Demographics

As of the 2021 census, Gorno Palčište had 1,127 residents with the following ethnic composition:[4]

  • Albanians 1,037
  • Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 90

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 1356 inhabitants.[5] Ethnic groups in the village include:[5]

According to the 1942 Albanian census, Gorno Palčište was inhabited by 1031 Muslim Albanians, 94 Bulgarians and 183 Serbs.[6]

According to the Bulgarian scientific expedition during the First World War, Gorno Palčište was inhabited by 325 Pomaks.[7]

According to the Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Gorno Palčište was inhabited by 165 Muslim Albanians.[8]

References

  1. ^ Турски документи за историјата на македонскиот народ кн.4, Методија Соколоски, д-р Александар Стојановски, Скопје 1971
  2. ^ Sokoloski, Metodija; Stojanovski, Aleksandar (1971). "ТУРСКИ ДОКУМЕНТИ ЗА ИСТОРИЈАТА НА МАКЕДОНСКИОТ НАРОД - ОПШИРЕН ПОПИСЕН ДЕФТЕР (1467-1468 година)". Државен архив на Македонија. p. 324. Gorno Palčište: Spirko, siromav (poor); Petko, his brother; Nikola, son of Spirko(or Stevko); Nikola, son of Gjorgji; Stepan, son of Gjuraš, Brajko, his son; Ivan, son of Stpean; Dimitri, son of Gjorgji; Pejo, his son; Petko, son of Gjorgji; Dejan, son of Gjorgji; Ratče, son of Bratan(?); Dejan, son of Dedo; Gjurica, son of Stajko; Miloš, his brother; Nikola, son of Gjurica; Bogdan, son of Gjurko; Nikola, son of Gjurko; Todor, son of Radomir; Stojo, son of Radomir; Rade, son of Radomir; Ivan, siromav(poor); Petko, son of Vlaše; Dimitri, his son; V'lkan, son of Dobroslav; Nikola, son of Dobroslav; Bogdan, son of Dobroslav; Dragaš, son of Petko...
  3. ^ Rexha, Iljaz (2011). "Vendbanimet dhe popullsia albane gjatë mesjetës në hapësirën e Maqedonisë së sotme: Sipas burimeve sllave dhe osmane". Gjurmime Albanologjike: Seria e Shkencave Historike (41–42): 167–218. The names are: Lazor, son of Arbanas; Gjon Arbanas; Dejan, his son; Gjergji Arbanas; Ivan, son of Dren; Dimitri, his son; Gjuri-ca Dralla; Lazor govedar (herder); Dobroslav, his brother; Mitran, his brother; Toni star (old man); Dejan, his son; Gjon the son-in-law of Radoslav; Kola, son of Zahari; Gjurgji, son of Zahari.
  4. ^ Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
  5. ^ a b Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 110.
  6. ^ "Ethnic/Religious composition of Dibër and Tetovë prefectures".
  7. ^ Petar Hristov Petrov (1993). Научна експедиция в Македония и Поморавието 1916. Военноизд-ки комплекс "Св. Георги Победоносец". p. 256. ISBN 9789540702551.
  8. ^ Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 264.