Pršovce (, ) is a
village
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in the
municipality
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The term ''municipality' ...
of
Tearce
Tearce ( , ) is a village located 12 km to the northeast of Tetovo, in northwestern North Macedonia, about 15 kilometres from the border with Kosovo. It is a seat of the Tearce municipality. Population 3,974 (2002). The B-405 road connects it ...
,
North Macedonia
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.
Name
The name appears in medieval records as ''Prushefc'', from the Latin loan into Albanian ''pirus-prush'' and the Slavic suffix ''ovci/e''.
History
Pršovce is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of
Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 61 Christian households, 3 bachelors and 3 widows.
According to the 1467-68 Ottoman defter, Pršovce exhibits mostly Slavic Orthodox anthroponomy with a small minority of Albanian ones.
Demographics
As of the
2021 census, Pršovce had 1,923 residents with the following ethnic composition:
*Albanians 1,871
*Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 37
*Macedonians 11
*Others 4
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 2,516 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. 185.
*Albanians
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2478
* Macedonians 1
*Romani
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* Romani people, or Roma, an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin
** Romani language, an Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani communities
** Romanichal, Romani subgroup in the United Kingdom
* Romanians (Romanian ...
6
*Serbs
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1
*Others 29
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov
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Early life and education
Vasil Kanchov was born in Vratsa. Upon graduating from High school i ...
in 1900, the village of Pršovce was inhabited by 165 Muslim Albanians.[Vasil Kanchov (1900). ]
Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics
'. Sofia. p. 264.
References
External links
Villages in Tearce Municipality
Albanian communities in North Macedonia
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