Gorno Melničani () is an uninhabited
village
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in the
municipality
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of
Centar Župa
Centar Župa (; ) is a village and seat in the Municipalities of North Macedonia, municipality of Centar Župa Municipality, Centar Župa, North Macedonia. The town is inhabited mainly by Turkish people, Turks.
Demographics
Centar Župa is a new v ...
,
North Macedonia
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.
Demographics
Gorno Melničani (''Gorna-Menliçani'') is attested in the
Ottoman ''
defter
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Etymology
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'' of 1467 as a village in the
ziamet
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of
Reka
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Places
* Řeka, a village in the Czech Republic
* Reka, Cerkno, a village near Cerkno, Slovenia
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which was under the authority of Karagöz Bey. The village had a total of six households and the anthroponymy attested depicts a mixed Albanian-Slavic character with instances of
Slavicisation
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; as is depicted in the case of ''Andrija Zogovići'', his surname being formed from the Albanian ''zog'' ("bird") and Slavic suffix -''ići''.
According to the 1942
Albanian
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census, Gorno Melničani was inhabited by 193 Bulgarians.
Gorno Melničani has traditionally been inhabited by an Orthodox Macedonian and
Torbeš population.
[ p. 326. "Население со мајчин јазик македонски живее во гр. Дебар (од двете конфесии), во селата: Присовјани, Локов, Збажди, Р’жаново, Буринец, Селци (православни) - во Малесија, Горно Косоврасти, Р’ковци, Кочишта, Мал и Голем Папрадник (муслимани), Долно Косоврасти, Мелничани, Броштица, Житинени, Горенци (од двете конфесии), Елевци, Рајчица, Пареши, Баниште (православни)."]
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 0 inhabitants.
[Macedonian Census (2002)]
''Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion''
The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 188.
References
Villages in Centar Župa Municipality
Torbeši settlements
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