Štirovica (; ) is a historical

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located within the boundaries of the present-day village of Brodec in the

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Gostivar Gostivar ( ; sq-definite, Gostivari) is a city in North Macedonia, located in the upper Polog valley region. It is the seat of one of the larger municipalities in the country with a population of 59,770, and the town also covers . Gostivar has ...

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. It is part of the region of

Upper Reka Upper Reka (; ) is a geographic area and ethnographic subregion of the broader Reka region of western North Macedonia, including settlements within the upper left portion of the Municipality of Mavrovo and Rostuša and of Gostivar Municipalit ...

History

Štirovica (''Shterovica'') appears in the Ottoman ''

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'' of 1467 as a village in the

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which was under the authority of Karagöz Bey. The village had a total of 11 households and the anthroponymy recorded depicts a predominantly Albanian character. According to ''Ethnography of the Adrianople, Monastir and Salonika vilayets'', Štirovica in 1873 had 100 households with 235 Albanian Muslims. In statistics gathered by

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in 1900, the village was inhabited by 400 Muslim Albanians.Vasil Kanchov (1900).
Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics
'. Sofia. p. 91, 263. Due to uprisings in the Upper Reka region, Štirovica was burned down by Serbian and Bulgarian forces between 1912 and 1916.."Tërnica, Reçi, Boletini, Dëbova, Strezimiri, Zavojska dhe Shtirovica deri në vitin 1916 u dogjën nga serbët dhe bullgarët. ërnica, Reçi, Boletini, Dëbova, Strezimiri, Zavojska and Shtirovica until 1916 were burned by Serbs and Bulgarians.

Notable people

* Bajazid Doda, ethnographic writer and photographer

Gallery

Doda nb902075b.jpg, Shepherds from Štirovica Štirovičani-1907.jpg, Residents of Štirovica on a hillside Maqedoni. Ardhja e krushqëve në Shtirovicë.jpg, Wedding guests in Štirovica Maqedoni. Dy të rinj të Shtirovicës duke treguar opingat e tyre.jpg, 2 boys from Štirovica showing their

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References

Works cited

* {{Gostivar Municipality Villages in Gostivar Municipality Albanian communities in North Macedonia