Gjinovec

Gjinovec (Bulgarian: Гиновец, Macedonian: Ѓиновец) is a village in the former Trebisht in Dibër County in northeastern Albania. In the 2015 local government reform, it became part of the municipality of Bulqizë.^[1] It is situated within the Gollobordë region, near the border with North Macedonia.

Gjinovec Ѓиновец
Village
Gjinovec
Coordinates: 41°23′13″N 20°30′34″E
Country	Albania
County	Dibër
Municipality	Bulqizë
Municipal unit	Trebisht
Population  (2007)
• Total	314
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Name

The name of the village is derived from a personal name Gjin or Gin with the suffix ovec.^[2]

Demographics

A demographic Bulgarian survey of the population of the village, done in 1873, recorded the village as having 90 households with 134 male Bulgarian Christian residents and 118 male Muslim (Pomak) residents.^[3]

The inhabitants of Gjinovec are speakers of an Eastern South Slavic language^{[broken anchor][4]} and the village has traditionally contained a Torbeši^[5] or Pomak^[6] population.

According to a 2007 estimate, Gjinovec's population was 314.^[7]