Plasnica

Village in Southwestern, North Macedonia

41°28′N 21°07′E / 41.467°N 21.117°E / 41.467; 21.117Country

North MacedoniaRegion

SouthwesternMunicipality

PlasnicaPopulation

(2021)

• Total2,115Official Language(s)

• primaryMacedonian • secondaryTurkishTime zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Car platesMBWebsite.

Plasnica (Macedonian: Пласница^ⓘ, Turkish: Plasnitsa) is a village and seat of the municipality of Plasnica, North Macedonia.

Demographics

The village is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kırçova. The village had a total of 32 houses, excluding bachelors (mucerred).^[1]

Plasnica has traditionally been inhabited by a Torbeš population.^[2]^[3]

As of the 2021 census, Plasnica had 2,115 residents with the following ethnic composition:^[4]

Turks 2,055
Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 57
Others 3

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 2,288 inhabitants.^[5] Ethnic groups in the village include:^[5]

Turks 2250
Macedonians 2
Albanians 7
Others 29

References

^ Qerim Dalipi. "NAHIJA E KËRÇOVËS SIPAS REGJISTRIMIT TË VITEVE 1467-1468 (Aspekte shoqërore)". Gjurmime Albanologjike - Seria e shkencave historike 47:29-48.
^ Trifunoski, Jovan F. (1968). Kičevska kotlina: Seoska naselja i stanovništvo. Izdanje autora. p. 115. "У његовој близини су торбешка села Преглово, Пласница и Лисичани."
^ Todorovski, Gligor (2001). Демографските процеси и промени во Македонија од почетокот на Првата балканска војна до осамостојувањето на Македонија: Со посебен осврт врз исламизираните Македонци. Инст. за национална историја. p. 356. ISBN 9789989624605. "Во Бродска околија исламизирани Македонци живееле во селата Дебреште, Лажани, Пласница и Преглово."
^ 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. 291.