Jablanica () is a
village
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in the
municipality
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of
Struga
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Name
The name Struga ...
,
North Macedonia
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.
Demographics
Jablanica appears in the
Ottoman ''
defter
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Etymology
The term is derived from Greek , literally 'processed animal skin, leather, fur', meaning a book, having pages of goat parchment used along with papyrus ...
'' of 1467 as a ''
hass-ı mir-liva'' property in the
vilayet
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of
Dulgoberda. The settlement had a total of 20 households and the anthroponymy attested depicts a mixed Albanian-Slavic character, with a slight predominance of personal names belonging to the Slavic onomastic sphere: ''
Pop
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'' ''Jovani'', ''Nikolla Susjaku'', ''Viho'' son of ''Pop Jovan'', ''Dimitri Lopi'', ''Dimitri Vasko'', ''Shagdo son of Gjinko'', ''Andrija'' son of ''Prodan'', ''Nikolla'' son of ''Vilkashin'', ''Gjergj Forkaleci'', ''Rajko Kuzini'', ''Nikolla'' son of ''Pop Jovan'', ''Gjure'' son of ''Shagdo'', ''Dimitri'' son of ''Rajko Kuzini'', ''Petko'' son of ''Dimitri Vasko'', ''Gjurec'' son of ''Gjorgo'', ''Alekoja'' son of ''Nikolla'', ''Miho'' son of ''Dimitri'', ''Dragoslav'' son of ''Nikolla'', ''Miho'' son of ''Gjon'', and ''Radoslav'' son of ''Prodan''.
Jablanica has traditionally been inhabited by Orthodox Christian Macedonians and a
Torbeš population.
[ p. 333. "Исламизираните Македонци во струшките села Јабланица, Боро(в)ец, Октиси, Подгорци и Лабуништа живеат заедно со православното население".]
According to the 1943
Albanian
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census, Jablanica was inhabited by 174 Muslim
Albanians
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and 1092 Orthodox
Macedonians.
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 553 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. 134.
* Macedonians 545
* Serbs
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1
* Others 7
References
External links
Villages in Struga Municipality
Torbeši settlements
{{Struga-geo-stub