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Urvič, Bogovinje

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Urvič, Bogovinje
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Urvič (Macedonian: Урвич, Albanian: Urviç) is a village in the municipality of Bogovinje, North Macedonia.

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History

According to the 1467-68 Ottoman defter, Urvič appears as being inhabited by Orthodox Christian Slavic population.[1]

According to the data gathered by the Serbian geographer and anthropologist Jovan Trifunoski, the inhabitants of the village are of Slavic Macedonian and Albanian origin.[2] Today, most of the inhabitants self-identify as Turks.

Demographics

Urvič is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 100 Christian households, 4 bachelors and 9 widows.[3]

Urvič, along with Jelovjane is one of two Gorani villages located in North Macedonia. The inhabitants speak the Gora dialect of Eastern South Slavic.[4][5][6][7]

As of the 2021 census, Urvič had 746 residents with the following ethnic composition:[8]

  • Turks 627
  • Albanians 101
  • Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 10
  • Others 8

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 756 inhabitants.[9] Ethnic groups in the village include:[9]

According to the 1942 Albanian census, Urvič was inhabited by 987 Muslim Albanians.[10]

In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Urvič was inhabited by 360 Muslim Bulgarians.[11]

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