Jablanica ( mk, Јабланица) is a
village
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in the
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
of
Struga
Struga ( mk, Струга , sq, Strugë) 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 nam ...
,
North Macedonia
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.
Demographics
Jablanica appears in the
Ottoman ''
defter
A ''defter'' (plural: ''defterler'') was a type of tax register and land cadastre in the Ottoman Empire.
Description
The information collected could vary, but ''tahrir defterleri'' typically included details of villages, dwellings, household ...
'' of 1467 as a ''
hass-ı mir-liva'' property in the
vilayet
A vilayet ( ota, , "province"), also known by #Names, various other names, was a first-order administrative division of the later Ottoman Empire. It was introduced in the Vilayet Law of 21 January 1867, part of the Tanzimat reform movement init ...
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'' ''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
Macedonian Muslim
The Macedonian Muslims ( mk, Македонци-муслимани, Makedonci-muslimani), also known as Muslim Macedonians or ''Torbeši'' ( mk, Торбеши), and in some sources grouped together with Pomaks, are a minority religious group w ...
(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 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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The majority of Serbs live in their na ...
1
* Others 7
References
External links
Villages in Struga Municipality
Macedonian Muslim villages
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