Frangovo (, ) is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

Struga Struga ( ; , sq-definite, Struga) is a town and popular tourist destination situated in the south-western region of North Macedonia, lying on the shore of Lake Ohrid. The town of Struga is the seat of Struga Municipality. Name The name Struga ...

North Macedonia North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo to the northwest and Serbia to the n ...

Name

All the forms of the toponym are derived from the form ''Frangovo'', by reduction of the original sound cluster ''an'' into ''ân/ën'' or the denasalisation of the latter (Frangovo, Frngovo, Frgovo). The form ''Фрургови Власи/Frugovi Vlasi'' has a Serbian denasalisation of the sound cluster ''an'' > ''o̧'' > ''u'' of which the toponym was first recorded in a medieval document of Emperor

Stefan Dušan Stephen (honorific), Stefan Uroš IV Dušan ( sr-Cyrl, Стефан Урош IV Душан), also known as Dušan the Mighty ( sr-Cyrl, Душан Силни; – 20 December 1355), was the King of Serbia from 8 September 1331 and Emperor of th ...

that was probably written by a Serb. This is a

possessive A possessive or ktetic form (Glossing abbreviation, abbreviated or ; from ; ) is a word or grammatical construction indicating a relationship of possession (linguistics), possession in a broad sense. This can include strict ownership, or a numbe ...

name formed with a suffix that is derived from the ethnonym '' Frang/Frank'' meaning (Western) Europeans or someone not of the Balkans and is probably associated with the

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era. "Сите приведени форми потекнуваат од формата Франгово, со редуцирање на првобитната група -ан- во -ън- или деназализација на последната (Франгово, Фрнгово, Фргово). Формата Фрургови Власи има српска деназализација на -ан- > -o̧- > -у (спорот на пр. Фрушка Гора во Србија), бидејќи документот на Душан веројатно го пишал Србин. Ова е посесивно име образувано со суфикот - ово од етнонимот Франг // Франк 'Европаец, не-Балканец' и веројатно е сврзана со крстоносните походи (в. с. 21)."

History

During the mid-fourteenth century, a document of Serbian Tsar Stefan Dušan refers to property of St Clement church in

Ohrid Ohrid ( ) is a city in North Macedonia and is the seat of the Ohrid Municipality. It is the largest city on Lake Ohrid and the eighth-largest city in the country, with the municipality recording a population of over 42,000 inhabitants as of ...

with the settlement recorded under the name ''Frugovi Vlasi'', which later possibly broke up into two villages identified as being modern Frangovo and nearby

Mali Vlaj Mali Vlaj ( or simply Влај) is a village on the Jablanica Mountain in the municipality of Struga, North Macedonia. Name The toponym is first recorded as a plural in the name ''Frougovi Vlasi''. The form ''Vlaj'' is an old accusative occurr ...

. p. 423. "Some two centuries later, in the mid-fourteenth century, a resolution of the Serbian Tsar Stefan Dušan regarding the property of the Church of St Clement in Ohrid mention the existence of what was probably a Vlach settlement by the name of Frugovi Vlasi. It probably broke up later on, but may be identified with the modern villages of Frangovo and Mali Vlaj south-west of Struga."

Demographics

The village of Frangovo is inhabited by

Tosks Tosks () are one of two major dialectal subgroups of Albanians (the other being the Ghegs) differentiated by their linguistic characteristics. Territory ''Tosk'' or ''Toskëri'' may refer to the Tosk-speaking Albanians, Albanian population of ...

, a subgroup of southern Albanians and speak the

Tosk Albanian Tosk ( sq-definite, toskërishtja) is the southern group of dialects of the Albanian language, spoken by the ethnographic group known as Tosks. The line of demarcation between Tosk and Gheg (the northern variety) is the Shkumbin River. Tosk is ...

dialect. "Ladorishti, Frëngova, Zagraçani dhe Kalishti fshatra toske" "Fshatrat e rrethinës së Strugës siç janë: Kalishti, Frengova, Ladorishti, Zagraçani dhe Shumi flasin në dialektin toskë, kurse në të gjithë fshatrat e tjerë flitet gegënishtja". As of the 2021 census, Frangovo had 1,206 residents with the following ethnic composition:Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
/ref> *Albanians 1,156 *Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 36 *Others 14 According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 1,739 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:Macedonian Census (2002)
''Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion''
The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 182. *

Albanians The Albanians are an ethnic group native to the Balkan Peninsula who share a common Albanian ancestry, Albanian culture, culture, Albanian history, history and Albanian language, language. They are the main ethnic group of Albania and Kosovo, ...

1,734 *Others 5

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