Pralenik

Pralenik
Village
Праленик
Airview of the village
Airview of the village
Pralenik is located in North Macedonia
Pralenik
Pralenik
Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 41°27′28″N 20°32′34″E / 41.45778°N 20.54278°E / 41.45778; 20.54278
Country North Macedonia
Region Southwestern
Municipality Centar Župa
Population
 (2021)
 • Total
144
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
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Pralenik (Macedonian: Праленик, Turkish: Pralenik) is a village in the municipality of Centar Župa, North Macedonia.

Demographics

Pralenik (Provalleniq) is recorded in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a village in the vilayet of Upper Dibra. The settlement was abandoned.[1]

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.[2]

In the 1901 Ethnographic Map of the Bitola Vilayet, produced by the Sofia Cartography Institute, Provalenik part of the Sanjak of Dibra—is depicted as a village of 82 households with a mixed population of Bulgarians, Pomaks, Albanians, and Turks.[3]

According to the 1942 Italian protectorate of Albania census, Pralenik was inhabited by 126 Muslim Albanians.[4]

As of the 2021 census, Pralenik had 144 residents with the following ethnic composition:[5]

  • Turks 137
  • Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 7

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 177 inhabitants.[6] Ethnic groups in the village include:[6]

References

  1. ↑ Gjoni, Z. & Përnezha, H. (2011). Dibra në Defterët Osmanë (1467, 1583), f.108. Tiranë: Botime M&B page 356
  2. ↑ 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"
  3. ↑ Етнографска карта на Битолскиот вилает (каталози на населби, забелешки и карта во четири дела).  Скопје, Каламус, 2017. ISBN 978-608-4646-23-5. с. 44.  (in Macedonian)
  4. ↑ "Ethnic/Religious composition of Dibër and Tetovë prefectures".
  5. ↑ Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
  6. 1 2 Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 189.