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Čoček
Čoček (; Serbian language, Serbian and , ''čoček''; ; Romanian language, Romanian: sistemul) is a musical genre and dance that emerged in the Balkans during the early 19th century. It features prominently in the repertoire of many Romani people, Romani brass bands. Čoček originated from Ottoman Empire, Ottoman military bands, which at that time were scattered across the region, mostly throughout Serbia, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Macedonia and Romania. That led to the eventual segmentation and wide range of ethnic sub-styles in čoček. Čoček was handed down through the generations, preserved mostly by Roma minorities, and was largely practiced at village weddings and banquets. Čoček is especially popular among the Muslim Roma and Albanians, Albanian populations of Kosovo, South Serbia and Macedonia. When Tanec first came to United States, America in 1956, they performed čoček as a Muslim woman's dance, "Kjupurlika" from Veles, North Macedonia, Titov Veles. The kyu ...
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Makedonski Cocek
Macedonian ( ; , , ) is an Eastern South Slavic language. It is part of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family, and is one of the Slavic languages, which are part of a larger Balto-Slavic languages, Balto-Slavic branch. Spoken as a first language by around 1.6 million people, it serves as the official language of North Macedonia. Most speakers can be found in the country and Macedonian diaspora, its diaspora, with a smaller number of speakers throughout the transnational Macedonia (region), region of Macedonia. Macedonian is also a recognized minority language in parts of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, and Serbia and it is spoken by expatriate communities predominantly in Australia, Canada, and the United States. Macedonian developed out of the western dialects of the Eastern South Slavic dialect continuum, whose earliest recorded form is Old Church Slavonic. During much of its history, this dialect continuum was called "Bulgarian", although in t ...
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