Arangel ( mk, Арангел, sq, Haranjell) is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

in the

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Kičevo Kičevo ( mk, Кичево ; sq, Kërçovë) is a city in the western part of North Macedonia, located in a valley in the south-eastern slopes of Mount Bistra, between the cities of Ohrid and Gostivar. The capital Skopje is 112 km away. The ...

North Macedonia North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Socialist Feder ...

. It used to be part of the former municipality of

Oslomej Oslomej ( mk, , sq, Osllomej) is a village in Kičevo Municipality in North Macedonia. It was the seat of the now-defunct Oslomej Municipality and is the birthplace of Yoakim Karchovski Yoakim Karchovski ( bg, Йоаким Кърчовски; m ...

History

After the capture of the village by

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forces, 7 Albanian men were executed by the incoming communist forces.

Demographics

The village is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kırçova. The village was divided in two timars, one having 8 and the other 38 houses, excluding bachelors (''mucerred''). According to the 1942

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census, Arangel was inhabited by a total of 339 Muslim Albanians. As of the 2021 census, Arangel had 292 residents with the following ethnic composition:Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
/ref> *Albanians 278 *Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 13 *Others 1 According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 709 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. 149. *

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: 708 *Others: 1

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Villages in Kičevo Municipality Albanian communities in North Macedonia {{Kičevo-geo-stub