Balanci
Balanci
Баланци Ballancë | |
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Village | |
Airview of the village Balanci | |
Balanci Location within North Macedonia | |
| Coordinates: 41°29′N 20°33′E / 41.483°N 20.550°E | |
| Country | North Macedonia |
| Region | Southwestern |
| Municipality | Centar Župa |
| Population (2021) | |
• Total | 165 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Car plates | DB |
| Website | . |
Balanci (Macedonian: Баланци, Albanian: Ballancë) is a village in the municipality of Centar Župa, North Macedonia. The nearby village of Vlasiḱi was once a neighbourhood of Balanci.[1] Other neighbouring villages of Bajramovci, Crno Boci and Odžovci were also once neighbourhoods of Balanci until the mid 1960s when they were elevated to the status of separate villages.[2][3][1] It is the only village in the municipality with an Albanian majority.
Name
The toponym Balanci is a patronymic formation derived from the name Balan and the suffix (ov)ci.[2]
Demographics
Balanci (Ballani) is recorded in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a village in the vilayet of Upper Dibra. The settlement was abandoned.[4]
According to Ottoman tahrir defters from the 1520s, 16 villages (all present-day Centar Župa villages) associated with Kala-i Kodžadžik had no Muslim population. However, the Muslim population increased in subsequent years. This was likely part of the Islamization of Macedonia under Turkish rule.[5]
As of the 2021 census, Balanci had 165 residents with the following ethnic composition:[6]
- Albanians 149
- Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 12
- Turks 4
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 432 inhabitants.[7] Ethnic groups in the village include:[7]
- Albanians 422
- Macedonians 9
- Others 1
Some Macedonian Muslims live in the village alongside the Albanian population of Balanci.[8]
According to the 1942 Albanian census, Balanci was inhabited by 352 Muslim Albanians.[9]
References
- ^ a b Włodzimierz, Pianka (1970). Toponomastikata na Ohridsko-Prespanskiot bazen. Institut za makedonski jazik "Krste Misirkov". p. 37. "Селото е некогашно маало на c. Баланци." p. 314. "Поради штедење на местото се употребуваат следниве скратеници за најчестите појмови: м. - место ... с. -село."; p. 450. "Црно Обоце - 'м., имало с.', Баланци, с. 197... Црнобози - 'маало', Баланци, с."
- ^ a b Institut za Makedonski jazik (1966). Makedonski jazik, Volume 17. Univerzitet vo Skopje. Katedra za juz̆noslovenski jazici. p. 78. "Поновите патронимични образувања се со суфиксите: - ци: Баланци (: Балан) и -овци: Бајрамовци (: Бајрам) и Оџовци (: Оџа: оџа). Овие суфикси (особно -овци) се карактеристични за изведување патронимични имиња за означување на маалата во селата. Бајрамовци и Оџовци се некогашни маала на с. Баланци самостојни села тие станаа во 1965 год."
- ^ Panov, Mitko (1993). Selata vo Republika Makedonija: sostojbi, problemi i možni pravci na razvojot na selskata sredina, Volume 1. NIO "Studentski zbor". p. 124. "Од 1961 до 1981 година целосно се раселени 6 села, но во истиот период, одделувајќи се како маала, се формирале три нови населби (Бајрамовци, Оцовци, Црнобоци)."
- ^ Gjoni, Z. & Përnezha, H. (2011). Dibra në Defterët Osmanë (1467, 1583), f.108. Tiranë: Botime M&B page 356
- ^ 367 NUMARALI MUHÂSEBE-İ VİLÂYET-İ RÛM-İLİ DEFTERİ İLE 94 ve 1078 NUMARALI AVLONYA LİVÂSI TAHRÎR DEFTERLERİ (926-1520/937-1530) "In the 1520 and 1530 year tahrir: Dizdār, nefer 1 Kethudā, nefer 1 İmām, nefer 1 Merdān-ı kal‘a, neferan 28 Kurā 16 Mezra‘a 1 Hāne-i müslim 1 Mücerred-i müslim 1 Hāne-i gebrān (Christian) 635 Mücerred-i gebrān 67 Bīve 26 Hāsıl 47.035 According to the Tahrir defter, Kocacık and its villages were in 1530 1-Kocacık kl. 2- Gorenci 3-Pariş 4-Boroşiniçe 5-Çirnibok 6-Yukarı Papranik 7-Aşağı Papranik 8-Koçişte 9-Breştani 10-Novak 11-Aşağı Elişiçe 12-Gorna Elişiçe 13-Osolniçe 14-Porovalenik 15-Vilasik 16-Tırnovnik"
- ^ Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
- ^ a b Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 188.
- ^ Vidoeski, Božidar (1998). Dijalektite na makedonskiot jazik. Vol. 1. Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite. ISBN 9789989649509. p. 326. "Население со албански мајчин јазик живее... во областа Жупа во селата Власиќе, Баланци, Житинени, Броштица (во последниве три села заедно со Македонци од муслиманската конфесија)".
- ^ "Ethnic/Religious composition of Dibër and Tetovë prefectures".