Novak, Centar Župa

Novak
Village
Новак
Airview of the village
Novak
Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 41°26′12″N 20°36′58″E / 41.43667°N 20.61611°E / 41.43667; 20.61611
Country North Macedonia
Region Southwestern
Municipality Centar Župa
Population
 (2021)
 • Total
751
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
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Novak (Macedonian: Новак, Turkish: Novak) is a village in the municipality of Centar Župa, North Macedonia. The village is inhabited mainly by Turks (Torbeši).[1][2][3][4][5]

Demographics

Novak is recorded in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a village in the vilayet of Upper Dibra. The settlement was abandoned.[6]

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.[7]

According to the 1929 ethnographic map by Russian Slavist Afanasy Selishchev, Novak was a mixed Bulgarian-Albanian village.[8]

According to the 1942 Albanian census, Novak was inhabited by 643 Muslim Albanians.[9]

The village is inhabited by a Turkish speaking population consisting of Turks (Torbeši).[1][2][3][4][5]

As of the 2021 census, Novak had 751 residents with the following ethnic composition:[10]

  • Turks 703
  • Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 45
  • Others 3

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 1,006 inhabitants.[11] Ethnic groups in the village include:[11]

References

  1. ^ a b Видоески, Божо (1998). Дијалектите на македонскиот јазик (in Macedonian). Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite. ISBN 978-9989-649-50-9. Население со мајчин јазик македонски живее во гр. Дебар (од двете конфесии), во селата: Присовјани, Локов, Збажди, Р'жаново, Буринец, Селци (православни) - во Малесија, Горно Косоврасти, Р'ковци, Кочишта, Мал и Голем Папрадник (муслимани), Долно Косоврасти, Мелничани, Броштица, Житинени, Горенци (од двете конфесии), Елевци, Рајчица, Пареши, Баниште (православни).
  2. ^ a b Türkiye'deki Balkan Muhacirleri Arasında Kaybolan Bir Topluluk: Torbeşler A Disappearing Community Among the Balkan Immigrants in Türkiye: Torbeši - Ali Dikici. T.C. Türk İşbirliği ve Koordinasyon Ajansı Başkanlığı Turkish International Cooperation and Coordination Agency. 2014.
  3. ^ a b Zadrożna, Anna (July 2017). "Reconstructing the past in a post-Ottoman village: Turkishness in a transnational context". Nationalities Papers. 45 (4): 524–539. doi:10.1080/00905992.2017.1287690.
  4. ^ a b Mangalakova, Tanya. "Among the Torbeshi in the Republic of Macedonia".
  5. ^ a b Manisa'da Yaşayan Torbeşler'in Düğün Adet ve Gelenekleri, (Basılmamış Yüksek Lisans Tezi, Ankara: Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü Türk Halkbilimi Anabilim Dalı, 1990)
  6. ^ Gjoni, Z. & Përnezha, H. (2011). Dibra në Defterët Osmanë (1467, 1583), f.108. Tiranë: Botime M&B page 356
  7. ^ 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"
  8. ^ Афанасий Селищев. „Полог и его болгарское население. Исторические, этнографические и диалектологические очерки северо-западной Македонии“. – София, 1929, стр. 26.
  9. ^ "Ethnic/Religious composition of Dibër and Tetovë prefectures".
  10. ^ Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
  11. ^ 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. 189.