Sogle (, ) is a

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in the

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Čaška Čaška (, ) is a village in the Republic of North Macedonia. It is the seat of the Čaška Municipality. Near the village, historians from the Republic of North Macedonia found a 6,000-year-old flute called the " Globular Flute". Demographics O ...

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Demographics

On the 1927 ethnic map of Leonhard Schulze-Jena, Sogle is shown as an

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village.Schultze Jena, Leonhard. Makedonien: Landschafts- und Kulturbilder. Jena, Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1927 The village of Sogle has historically been inhabited by a Torbeš population and Muslim Albanians. In the early 1960s the Torbeš population consisted of 7 families and 11 households, while Muslim Albanians were 13 families and 24 households. Due to the migration of some of the Muslim population from the village, Orthodox Macedonians from the villages of Nežilovo, Papradište, ,

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and other settlements of the Azot region have settled in their place in Sogle. Muslim Albanians though traditionally have been a smaller population in Sogle, they have influenced the process of Torbeš in the village assimilating as Albanians. Village relations between Albanians of Sogle with those of

Gorno Jabolčište Gorno Jabolčište (, ) is a village in the municipality of Čaška, North Macedonia. Demographics According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 2.444 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:Macedonian Census (2021)''Book 5 - ...

and

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are absent and instead are close with the villages of Desovo and

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with whom they practice marriage

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. p.89. "Торбешите денеска живеат во три села: Мелница 41 род со 104 домаќинства, Горно Врановци 37 родови со 60 домаќинства и Согле 7 родови со 11 домаќинства. Муслиманското население од албанската говорна група има во 9 села: Согле 13 со 24 домаќинства,..."; p. 99. "Во Согле, наместо иселените муслимани се населуваат Македонци од Азот (Нежилово, Папрадиште, Капиново, Ореше, Богомила и други)."; p. 104. "Арнаутите од Согле и двете Јаболчишта не одржуваат меѓусебна брачни врски. Согленчани земаат жени од прилепските села Дешово и Црнилиште. Мешаните бракови меѓу муслиманското население од двете групи во селата околу Тополка порано биле почести одошто денеска. Такви бракови во Согле има доста и сега."; p. 105. "Неоспорно Торбешите во Согле многу да влијаеле на Арнаутите, и ако од нив биле многу бројно помалку застапени од сегогаш и допринеле процесот на албанизација кај нив да попушти." According to the 2021 census, the village had a total of 116 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:Macedonian Census (2021)
''Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion''
The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2021 * Macedonians 70 *

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41 *Others 5

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