Grnčari (Macedonian: Грнчари, Albanian: Gërçar, Turkish: Grınçar) is a village in the Resen Municipality of North Macedonia. Located just under 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) from the municipal centre of Resen,[1] the village has 417 residents.[2]
Grnčari Грнчари Gërçar Grınçar | |
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Village | |
Coordinates: 41°01′06″N 21°03′12″E / 41.01833°N 21.05333°E | |
Country | North Macedonia |
Region | Pelagonia |
Municipality | Resen |
Population (2021) | |
• Total | 311 |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Area code | +389 |
Car plates | RE |
Demographics
The village of Grnčari is inhabited by an Sunni Muslim Albanian speaking majority and Orthodox Macedonian minority.[3] A few Turkish speaking families are also present in Grnčari.[3] Sunni Albanians in Grnčari traditionally highlighted their religious identity over a linguistic one having closer economic and social relations with Turks and Macedonian Muslims in the region and being distant from Orthodox Macedonians.[3] Over time these differences have disappeared through intermarriage, closer communal and cultural relations with Bektashi and other Sunni Prespa Albanian communities in the region.[3]
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Grnčari was inhabited by 165 Bulgarian Christians and 300 Muslim Albanians.[4] In 1905 in statistics gathered by Dimitar Mishev Brancoff, Grnčari was inhabited by 120 Bulgarian Exarchists and 360 Muslim Albanians.[5] After World War Two, some Albanian settlements in Yugoslavia declared themselves as Turks due to the word being a generic term for Muslims or pressure by Yugoslav authorities to do so.[6][7] In the 2002 census, Albanians form a large ethnic majority in the village.[8]
Ethnic group | census 1961 | census 1971 | census 1981 | census 1991 | census 1994 | census 2002 | census 2021 | |||||||
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Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
Macedonians | 170 | 17.7 | 157 | 15.0 | 164 | 13.6 | 102 | 12.6 | 92 | 19.3 | 79 | 18.9 | 54 | 17.4 |
Albanians | 194 | 20.2 | 838 | 79.9 | 963 | 79.9 | 354 | 43.8 | 362 | 76.1 | 326 | 78.2 | 230 | 74.0 |
Turks | 597 | 62.1 | 49 | 4.8 | 61 | 5.1 | 43 | 5.3 | 22 | 4.6 | 11 | 2.6 | 4 | 1.3 |
others | 1 | 0.1 | 5 | 0.5 | 17 | 1.4 | 309 | 38.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.3 |
Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources | 22 | 7.1 | ||||||||||||
Total | 962 | 1,049 | 1,205 | 808 | 476 | 417 | 311 |
Sports
Local football club KF Lirija Gërçar play in the Macedonian Third League (Southwest Division).
Gallery
- Fields of Grnčari, with Lake Prespa and Galičica mountains in the background
- Architecture of Grnčari
- View from Grnčari of the road toward Podmočani.
- Local football ground of Grnčari football team
- Mosque and Muslim cemetery of Grnčari
- Tekke of Sali Baba, Grnčari
- Church of St. Athanasius and Orthodox cemetery, Grnčari
- St. Elijah Monastery, Grnčari (built 18th century)
- Iconostasis of St. Elijah Monastery, Grnčari
- Forest of Grnčari on the slopes of the Baba mountain range