Grnčari

Grnčari Грнчари Gërçar
Village
Houses in Grnčari
Grnčari Location within Macedonia
Coordinates: 41°01′06″N 21°03′12″E / 41.01833°N 21.05333°E
Country	Macedonia
Municipality	Resen Municipality
Population (2002)
• Total	417
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Area code(s)	+389
Car plates	RE

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,^[1] the village has 417 residents.^[2]

Demographics

In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Grnčari was inhabited by 165 Bulgarian Christians and 300 Muslim Albanians.^[3] In 1905 in statistics gathered by Dimitar Mishev Brancoff, Grnčari was inhabited by 120 Bulgarian Exarchists and 360 Muslim Albanians.^[4] 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.^[5][6] In fieldwork done by sociologist Jane Sugarman in the area (early 1970s - mid 1990s), most of the village inhabitants were Albanian speaking Muslims.^[7] 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.^[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
	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
Albanians	194	20.2	838	79.9	963	79.9	354	43.8	362	76.1	326	78.2
Turks	597	62.1	49	4.8	61	5.1	43	5.3	22	4.6	11	2.6
others	1	0.1	5	0.5	17	1.4	309	38.2	0	0.0	1	0.2
Total	962		1,049		1,205		808		476		417

References

1. "Grnčari". Retrieved 11 Sep 2013.
2. Municipality of Resen
3. Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 241.
4. D.M.Brancoff (1905). La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne. Paris. рp. 170-171.
5. Brunnbauer, Ulf (2004). "Fertility, families and ethnic conflict: Macedonians and Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia, 1944–2002." Nationalities papers. 32. (3): 568. "The decrease of the proportion of Albanians between 1948 and 1953 was due to the fact that in 1953 many Albanian-speaking Muslims identified themselves as "Turks" in order to be able to emigrate to Turkey. Hence the share of the "Turkish" population grew from 8.3% in 1948 to 15.6% in 1953. During the 1950s, around 130,000 "Turks" emigrated from Yugoslav Macedonia to Turkey, as a result of an emigration agreement between Yugoslavia and Turkey." ; p. 583. "Once communist power was established, the Albanians, and the Muslim communities in general, felt increasingly alienated from the state, for example, because of its anti-religious agenda, its ethnic Macedonian outlook, the strong Serbian influence, and its radical attempts to change the role of women…. The local elites of the Albanians, and especially the Muslim clergy, had associated inclusion in the social mainstream with the dangers of cultural pollution and assimilation. This alienation from socialist transformation was among the reasons why thousands of Albanians emigrated as "Turks" to Turkey in the 1950s. Hence, the effects of discrimination by state authorities were multiplied by those of self-isolation."
6. Friedman, Victor (2003). "Language in Macedonia as an identity construction site." In Joseph, Brian (ed). When Languages Collide: Perspectives on Language Conflict, Language Competition, and Language Coexistence]. Ohio State university press. p. 272. When the 1948 census was conducted, relations between Yugoslavia and Albania were good while those between Yugoslavia and Turkey were not. By 1953, Tito had broken with Stalin and in the wake of that split Yugoslavia had broken with Albania while improving relations with Turkey. The subsequent decades saw both emigration to Turkey (sometimes for economic reasons, but see also Akan 2000, 81—1 19) by those declaring Turkish nationality (sometimes declared on the basis of Muslim religion rather than Turkish mother tongue) as well as rising Albanian nationalism and pressure on Muslims in Kosovo and Western Macedonia to declare Albanian nationality (Tanasković 1992 143—44; Akan 2000, 179—221). The 1981 census was the last uncontested census conducted in former Yugoslavia.
7. Sugarman, Jane (1997). Engendering song: Singing and subjectivity at Prespa Albanian weddings. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226779720. p. 9. "Of the Muslims, most of those living in Resen and in the nearby villages of Drmeni, Lavci, Carev Dvor, and Kozjak, as well as some families in Gorna Bela Crkva and Grnčari, speak Turkish. It is possible that some of these families are descendants of Turks settled strategically during the Ottoman period in villages along what was then the main route between the towns of Bitola and Korçë. Most, however, are believed by scholars to be of Slavic origins, with ancestors who took on an ascription of Turkish ethnicity in recent centuries. Albanian-speaking Muslims live in small numbers in Resen and the villages of Sopotsko, Kozjak, and Gorna Bela Crkva. They also make up a significant portion of the population of the villages of Dolna Bela Crkva, Grnčari, Asamati, Krani, Arvati, and Nakolec."; p. 11. "A third group of Albanians, also Sunni, lives in the villages of Sopotsko, Dolna Bela Crkva and Grnčari, in a area formally known as upper Prespa (Gorna Prespa)."
8. Censuses of population 1948 - 2002

Coordinates: 41°01′N 21°03′E / 41.017°N 21.050°E