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Galičnik

Coordinates: 41°35′39″N 20°39′11″E / 41.59417°N 20.65306°E / 41.59417; 20.65306
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Galičnik
Галичник
Village
Galičnik is located in North Macedonia
Galičnik
Galičnik
Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 41°35′39″N 20°39′11″E / 41.59417°N 20.65306°E / 41.59417; 20.65306
Country North Macedonia
Region Polog
Municipality Mavrovo and Rostuša
Highest elevation
1,500 m (4,900 ft)
Population
 (2021)
 • Total
48
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Car platesGV

Galičnik (Macedonian: Галичник) is a mountain village in North Macedonia and along with Lazaropole is one of the two biggest and oldest Mijak villages in the region. Galičnik has well-preserved traditional architecture, including an amphitheater in the village square, and is famous for its surrounding countryside and nature reserve. The village is know for the Galička Svadba, a traditional wedding custom held annually in summer (in July), on the day of the village feast of the Patron Saint – Petrovden (St. Peter's day). During the wedding, local men will dance the "Teškoto" (the "hard" or "heavy").

History

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Galičnik has traditionally been identified as a Mijak village.[1]

Galičnik (Galiçnik) is attested in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a village in the ziamet of Reka which was under the authority of Karagöz Bey. The village appears as uninhabited.[2]

At the end of the 19th century, Galičnik was a large Bulgarian palanka , with its inhabitants engaged in masonry and animal husbandry - mainly sheep breeding. According to Ethnographie des Vilayets D'Andrinople, de Monastir, et de Salonique, published in Constantinople in 1878, the village had a total of 500 houses, with 1482 Orthodox Bulgarians.[3]

In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Galičnik was inhabited by 3300 Orthodox Bulgarians.[4]

At the beginning of the 20th century, the entire Christian population of the village was under the rule of Bulgarian Exarchate. According to the Secretary of the Exarchate Dimitar Mishev ("La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne”) in 1905 there were 4840 Bulgarian Exarchists in Galičnik and a Bulgarian school operated in the village.[5]

According to statistics from the newspaper " Debarski Glas " in 1911, there were 560 Bulgarian exarchate and 20 patriarchal houses in Galičnik (since 1892). A Serbian school operates in the village with 1 male and 1 female teacher and 22 students.[6]

On his 1929 ethnic map of Northwestern Macedonia, Afanasy Selishchev marked Galičnik as a Bulgarian village.[7]

Archictecture

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The village is built based on traditional housing standards used for centuries in the region. Stone wall construction, supported by wooden beams, compact earth insulation and using stone slate roofing.[8]

See also: Category: Galičnik

There are many houses owned by prominent families in Galičnik that are protected by the Macedonian Cultural Heritage Protection Office.[9] A selected few are as follows:

Galicnik 1908

Notable people from Galičnik

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References

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  1. ^ Brown, Keith (2003). The past in question: modern Macedonia and the uncertainties of nation. Princeton University Press. p. 85. ISBN 0-691-09995-2.
  2. ^ Caka, Eduart (2019). Defteri i hollësishëm për zonat e dibrës i vitit 1467. Tiranë: Akademia e studimeve albanologjike instituti historisë. p. 131.
  3. ^ "Section: Ethnographie du Vilayet de Monastir (Bitolia), p. 55.". Ethnographic des Vilayets d'Andrinople, de Monastir, et de Salonique. Constantinople. 1878.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 264.
  5. ^ Brancoff, D. M. La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne : Avec deux cartes etnographiques. Paris, Librarie Plon, Plon-Nourrit et Cie, Imprimeurs-Éditeurs, 1905. p. 184-185.
  6. ^ Дебърски глас, година 2, брой 38, 3 април 1911, стр. 2.
  7. ^ Селищев, Афанасий. „Полог и его болгарское население. Исторические, этнографические и диалектологические очерки северо-западной Македонии“. – София, 1929.
  8. ^ Slavko Brezoski (1993). Rekanska Kuќa, Arhitektonsko Nasledstvo vo Makedonija. University of Skopje, Architecture: Bigoss.
  9. ^ Bužaroski, Risto (2004). "Naša Kniga". Галичка повест [Galičnik History] (in Macedonian). Skopje: NIK. p. 176.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
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