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Frangovo
Франгово Frëngovë | |
|---|---|
Village | |
 Air view of the village | |
  Frangovo Location within North Macedonia | |
| Coordinates: 41°08′43″N 20°37′23″E / 41.14528°N 20.62306°E | |
| Country |  North Macedonia |
| Region |  Southwestern |
| Municipality |  Struga |
| Area | |
• Total | 9.4 km2 (3.6 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 810 m (2,660 ft) |
| Population (2021) | |
• Total | 1,206 |
| • Density | 130/km2 (330/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Area code | +38946 |
| Car plates | SU |
Frangovo (Macedonian: Франгово; Albanian: Frëngovë) is a village in the municipality of Struga, North Macedonia. In the 2021 census, it had a population of 1,206, of which the majority were Albanians.
Name
[edit]All forms of the toponym are derived from the form Frangovo, by reduction of the original sound cluster an into ân/ën or the denasalisation of the latter (Frangovo, Frngovo, Frgovo).[1] The form Фрургови Власи/Frugovi Vlasi has a Serbian denasalisation of the sound cluster an > o̧ > u of which the toponym was first recorded in a medieval document of Emperor Stefan Dušan, probably written by a Serb.[1] This is a possessive name formed with a suffix that is derived from the ethnonym Frang/Frank meaning (Western) Europeans or someone not of the Balkans and is probably associated with the Crusades era.[1]
History
[edit]During the mid-fourteenth century, a document of Stefan Dušan refers to property of the Church of Sts. Clement and Panteleimon in Ohrid with the settlement recorded under the name Frugovi Vlasi, which later possibly broke up into two villages identified as being modern Frangovo and nearby Mali Vlaj.[2]
Vasil Kanchov's 1900 survey recorded 360 Muslim Arnauts in Фъргово.[3] In 1901, Фаргово was an Albanian village with 45 houses in the Ethnographic Map of the Bitola Vilayet.[4]
Geography
[edit]This large village with surface area of 9.4 square kilometers is situated in the southwestern part of Struga Municipality near the border of Albania. Its territory extends up to the ridge of Mount Jakupica. As a hilly village, it has an elevation of 810 meters.[5]
Demographics
[edit]Ethnicities
[edit]The village of Frangovo is inhabited by Tosks, a subgroup of southern Albanians and speak the Tosk Albanian dialect.[6][7]
The historical ethnic makeup of this village is as follows:[8][9][10]
| Ethnicity | Year | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 1994 | 2002 | 2021 | |
| Macedonians | 37 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Albanians | 716 | 842 | 1,084 | 1,249 | 0 | 1,554 | 1,734 | 1,156 |
| Turks | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Roma | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Aromanians | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Serbs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Bosniaks | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Others | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 13 |
| Total | 758 | 844 | 1,088 | 1,254 | 0 | 1,554 | 1,739 | 1,206[11] |
Sex distribution
[edit]The historical population of both sexes in this village is as follows:[12]
| Sex | Year | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 1953 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 1994 | 2002 | |
| Male | 343 | 411 | 450 | 569 | 645 | — | 788 | 893 |
| Female | 309 | 347 | 394 | 519 | 609 | — | 766 | 846 |
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Włodzimierz, Pianka (1970). Toponomastikata na Ohridsko-Prespanskiot bazen. Institut za makedonski jazik "Krste Misirkov". p. 69. "Сите приведени форми потекнуваат од формата Франгово, со редуцирање на првобитната група -ан- во -ън- или деназализација на последната (Франгово, Фрнгово, Фргово). Формата Фрургови Власи има српска деназализација на -ан- > -o̧- > -у (спорот на пр. Фрушка Гора во Србија), бидејќи документот на Душан веројатно го пишал Србин. Ова е посесивно име образувано со суфикот - ово од етнонимот Франг // Франк 'Европаец, не-Балканец' и веројатно е сврзана со крстоносните походи (в. с. 21)."
- ↑ Koukoudis, Asterios (2003). The Vlachs: Metropolis and Diaspora. Thessaloniki: Zitros Publications. ISBN 9789607760869. p. 423. "Some two centuries later, in the mid-fourteenth century, a resolution of the Serbian Tsar Stefan Dušan regarding the property of the Church of St Clement in Ohrid mention the existence of what was probably a Vlach settlement by the name of Frugovi Vlasi. It probably broke up later on, but may be identified with the modern villages of Frangovo and Mali Vlaj south-west of Struga."
- ↑ Кѫнчовъ, Василъ (1900). Македония. Етнография и Статистика [Macedonia. Ethnography and Statistics] (in Bulgarian). Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. p. 254.
- ↑ Михајловски, Роберт (2017). Етнографска карта на Битолскиот вилает [Ethnographic Map of the Bitola Vilayet] (PDF) (in Macedonian). Skopje: Каламус. p. 32. ISBN 978-608-4646-23-5.
- ↑ Панов, Митко (1998). Енциклопедија на селата во Република Македонија [Encyclopedia of the Villages in the Republic of Macedonia] (PDF) (in Macedonian). Skopje: Patrija. p. 308. ISBN 9789989862007.
- ↑ Murtishi, Kaim (2001). Ladorishti: Histori dhe Tradita. Asdreni. p. 53. "Ladorishti, Frëngova, Zagraçani dhe Kalishti fshatra toske"
- ↑ Tuda, Shpresa (1977). "Të dhëna për zakonet e vdekjes dhe vajtimet në Strugë dhe rrethinë". Gjurmime Albanologjike: Folklor Dhe Etnologji. 5–7: 159. "Fshatrat e rrethinës së Strugës siç janë: Kalishti, Frengova, Ladorishti, Zagraçani dhe Shumi flasin në dialektin toskë, kurse në të gjithë fshatrat e tjerë flitet gegënishtja".
- ↑ "Население на Република Македонија според изјаснувањето за етничката припадност, по населени места, според пописите на население 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 1994 и 2002 година (согласно територијалната организација од 1996 година)" (in Macedonian). State Statistical Office of North Macedonia.
- ↑ "Вкупно резидентно население на Република Северна Македонија според етничката припадност, по населени места, Попис, 2021" (in Macedonian). State Statistical Office of North Macedonia.
- ↑ In 1948, the population was 652, with no recorded ethnic composition.
- ↑ There are 36 "persons for whom the data has been obtained from administrative sources".
- ↑ "Население по возраст и по пол, по населени места, според пописите спроведени во Република Македонија по Втората светска војна". PxWeb (in Macedonian). State Statistical Office of North Macedonia. Retrieved 2026-06-06.
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