Selci is a village in

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Demographics

Selci (''Silec'') is recorded in the Ottoman ''

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'' of 1467 as a village in the

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of Upper Dibra, part of the

timar A timar was a land grant by the sultans of the Ottoman Empire between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, with an annual tax revenue of less than 20,000 akçes. The revenues produced from the land acted as compensation for military service. A ...

of Muhidin. The settlement was recorded as abandoned. In the 19th century Selci was a Bulgarian village in

Debar Debar ( ; , sq-definite, Dibra or Dibra e Madhe) is a city in the western part of North Macedonia, near the border with Albania, off the road from Struga to Gostivar. It is the seat of Debar Municipality. Debar has an ethnic Albanian majorit ...

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of the

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. According to the statistics of

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("Macedonia. Ethnography and Statistics") in 1900 there were 1,050 Bulgarian inhabitants, all

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. The entire Christian population of the village is under the rule of

Bulgarian Exarchate The Bulgarian Exarchate (; ) was the official name of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church before its autocephaly was recognized by the Ecumenical See in 1945 and the Bulgarian Patriarchate was restored in 1953. The Exarchate (a de facto autocephaly) ...

. According to the Secretary of the Exarchate Dimitar Mishev ("La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne”) in 1905 there were 1,144 Bulgarian Exarchists in Selce and a Bulgarian school operated in the village. According to statistics from the newspaper Debarski Glas in 1911 in Selci there were 150

houses. According to the 2002 census, the village was without inhabitants. As of the 2021 census, Selci had 6 residents with the following ethnic composition:Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
/ref> *Macedonians 5 *Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 1

References

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