Country Macedonia Car plates RE Area code +389 | Time zone CET (UTC+1) Population 417 (2002) | |
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Grnčari (Macedonian: Грнчари; Albanian: Gërçar) is a village in the Resen Municipality of the Republic of Macedonia. Located just under 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) from the municipal centre of Resen, the village has 417 residents.
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Map of Grnchari, Macedonia (FYROM)
Demographics
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Grnčari was inhabited by 165 Bulgarian Christians and 300 Muslim Albanians. In 1905 in statistics gathered by Dimitar Mishev Brancoff, Grnčari was inhabited by 120 Bulgarian Exarchists and 360 Muslim Albanians. 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. In fieldwork done by sociologist Jane Sugarman in the area (early 1970s - mid 1990s), most of the village inhabitants were Albanian speaking Muslims. While there are a few Turkish speaking families present who were either descended from Turks settled in strategic areas or the descendants of local Turkified Slavs. In the 2002 census, Albanians form a large ethnic majority in the village.