Struktura etnike e popullsisë së Pollogut në fundin e shek. XIX (1896-1900)
The Ethnic Structure of the Populatioon of Pollog at the End of the 19th Century (1896-1900)

Summary/Abstract: Pollog stretches in the upper course ofVardar. With the adlninistrative division in f()rce until 1996 in the Republic of Macedonia~ the zone of Pollog frOITI the point of vie\-\' of the space was idcntitied with the COlnnUlne of Tetove and that of Gostivar. \\/her~as at the end of the XIX-th century~ according to the adlninistrative division established in the European Tllrkey~ the t\\/o urban centres Inade part in the sandjak of Prizrcn in the vilayct of Kosova. the tirst as kaza~ and the second as mahije depending \)n th is kaza. The detcnnination of the ethnic structure of the population of Pollog is Inade hasing 011 various sources. 1l1ainly on the data ofthe ()ttofllan regislers~ and., especially~ of the ()ttoillan statistical year-books of the years 1893~. 1896 and 1900., in docunlents 1'1'0111 th~ archives ofthe other countries as well as in various delTIographic and historical \\orks. ,\ccorJing to these year-books the kaza of l'etove together \vith the nahijc of Ciost ivar had a general population or92 102 inhabitants. The other calculations. given in the ~anle year-books bring the general population of Portog at the end of the XIX-th century to 100 000 inhabitants. FrolH the point of vie\v of the religious faith the population of 92 102 inhabitants \vas divided~ according to the salHe sources. in this IHanner: rv10slenls - 60 696 inhabitants. 65 90 1\1acedonians (registered in the year-book as ··BlIlgarians~·). 20 350 inhabitants. 22'<)9 per cent. Orthodoxes (registered as ··RUlllS"). II 056 inhabitants., 11.87 per cent.

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