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Case Study Ethnonym of the Vlachs , Historical Region of Macedonia TIB 16 , Byzantino-Serbian Border Zones in Transition (1282–1355)

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Republic of Macedonia State Statistical Office. Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Macedonia (Skopje 2005).

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Court Register of Bitola 1622 Source Document No.16 of Sicil 2 of the Bitola Court was composed between 1 and 15 Ramadan 1031 (between 10 and 24 July 1622). In it, it is indicated that Dervish Bay, sipahi of the village Gramos in the region of Argos Orestiko declared: “I ask for a muhzir (court courier) to bring in front of this court Ghin, the ironmonger Kolcio, the priest Hristo, Doke Kuyunci, Nikola Ghin, Fote Lazo and other villagers from Gramos who now reside in Malovishte, kaza Bitola, in order to pay the ispence (land tax levied on non-Muslims)”. In return, the mentioned villagers declared: “We will not go to court. Instead we will kill you with stones and escape to the mountains”.
Court Register of Bitola 1623 Source Page No. 39a/III of Sicil No. 2 of Bitola Court from May 11 and May 20, 1623, is consisted of the statements of 3 Muslims, witnesses in a process. Two of these witnesses were from the village Magarevo, namely Mustafa, son of Hussein, and Osman, son of Mehmed.
Court Register of Bitola 1638 Source Page No. 7 of Document 24 in Sicil No. 5 of Bitola Court 1640, registers certain Dimo Vlah from Magarevo, who possessed a vineyard near the village Dobromiri, in kaza Monastir.
Court Register of Bitola 1639 Source Page No.16-b/II of Sicil No. 6 of the Bitola Court was composed between 1 and 10 Jumada al-akhirah 1049 (between 30 August and 8 September 1639). Therein it is stated that three Jews from Bitola accused the residents of the village of Malovište for kidnapping the Jews Haim, Isaak and Haim from Bitola.
Court Register of Bitola 1640 Source Page No. 38a in Document 5 of Sicil No. 6 of Bitola Court was created in 1640. It is consisted of a statement by the villagers from Magarevo, who give their guarantees that the former bandit Loshan from Magarevo will no longer be a robber, because he became a martolos (local security force of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans, active between 15-17 centuries, initially constituted out of the local Christians)
Court Register of Bitola 1641 Source Pages No. 85b and 86a of Sicil 8 of the Bitola Court was composed on 17 February 1641. It includes a list of Christian villages in the region of Bitola from 26 December 1639 to 14 December 1640 as well as the number of houses in the particular village. In the mentioned time span the village of Malovište had 55 houses.
Court Register of Bitola 1641 Source Page No. 85b and 86a of Sicil No. 8 of Bitola Court from February 17, 1641, is consisted of a list of Christian villages in the region of Bitola. In it, Magarevo is listed as a village with 55 houses.
Court Register of Bitola 1658 Source Document 1 on page 62 in Sicil no. 16 is without date, but judging by the dates of the documents preceding and following it in the same Sicil, it was composed in 1658. It includes a verdict from the judge called Ibrahim Aga and the confession of the convict named Mishe, a bandit from the village of Malovište, convicted for banditry. Following the accusation that he is “a bandit who attempted to start a rebellion in the Empire”, Mishe admitted that he was “a bandit who attacked many places and robbed them”. Since Mishe was from the village of Malovište, it is highly probable that he was of Vlach descent.
Court Register of Bitola 1707 Source Document No. 4 (page 48b) of Sicil 32 of the Bitola Court was composed on 14 Safar 1119 (16 May 1707). In it, it is indicated that the Divan of Rumeli orders the kadi of Bitola to catch, arrest, tie and send the villagers Dimo, Nicio and Volkan from Malovište, sons of Niko and Ianciur, to the Divan of Rumeli.
Court Register of Bitola 1709 Source Document No.1, page 6a, of Sicil 33 of the Bitola Court was composed on 18 July 1709. It consists of an accusation by a certain Sora, the daughter of Dimo, a Christian from the village of Malovište. Sora accuses the bandit Ivan for killing and robbing her son Dimo. The court in Bitola convicted Ivan.
Court Register of Bitola 1721 Source Document No. 2, page 124b of Sicil 39 of the Bitola Court was composed on 29 Muharram 1134 (20 November 1721). In it, it is indicated: "The following persons registered in the Court: Dimo Pagor, Tane Simo, Kosta Petko, Cocio Dudu, Neto Kuyunci, Cocio Gogo, Simo son of Pancio, Yoryi Cioshcu, Hristu Papas, Kosta Papu, Edamo Iano and other inhabitants from the village of Malovište. In accordance to the high Firman they guaranteed for each other and they made a commitment to chase and catch bandits as well as to bring them to the Sharia. Written on 29th of honorable Muharram 1134. Witnesses: Haji Ibrahim, Ibrahim (a city notable), Hasan (muhzir)."
Court Register of Bitola 1729 Source Document No. 2, page 80 of Sicil 42 of the Bitola Court was composed on 24 Shawwal 1141 (23 May 1729). It is a plea sent to Sultan Ahmed III by certain Mestan and Shaban to arrest the Christians Ludo Malo and Kudo Ludo from Malovište. In it it is indicated: “To our honorable Sultan – may he be healthy. Your faithful servants are begging you this: Our brother Haji Halil, resident of Shkoder, was on his way back from Istanbul to Shkoder, when the Christians Ludo Malo and Kudo Ludo, residents of Malovište in the kaza Monastir, together with 8 (eight) companions of theirs, told our brother Halil: “Lets travel together”. So they traveled together. On the road, they later killed our brother and one of his servants, they robbed his goods and they disappeared."
Court Register of Bitola 1734 Source Document No. 1, page 29 of Sicil 44 of the Bitola Court was composed on 26 December 1734. It is a plea sent to Sultan Mahmud I. by certain Husein Bacdar to arrest the bandits Cocio Yorgo, Dimo Nano and Papa Kosta, all from Malovište, as well as the bandits Nicio Kiras and Papa Nicio from Gopes, who robbed and killed his brother Bacdar Mustafa,near the town of Prilep.
Court Register of Bitola 1742 Source Document No.1, page 26 of Sicil 48 of the Bitola Court was composed between 5 June and 3 July 1742. It is a list consisting of all the names of villagers from the nahiye Demir Hisar and Gyavato, assigned to chase and to arrest outlaws in the mentioned nahiye.
Court Register of Sanjak 1583 Source Page 58a of the census for Nahie Prespa, Kaza Ohrid in Sanjak Ohrid, is consisted of the names of all male inhabitants in the village Gopeš. According to this document, in 1583 the village Gopeš was inhabited by 19 male inhabitants, 15 of which were married, and 4 were unmarried.
Court Register of Sicil 1633 Source Document No. 5 of Sicil 3 (page 5a), Document No. 6 of Sicil 3 (page 15b) and Document No. 1 of Sicil 3 (page 16a) of the Bitola Court were composed in the third decade of Jumādá al-ākhirah (between 23 and 31 December 1633). In them, it is indicated that Nicio from the village Gopeš in kaza Ohrid, son of Dimko, declared in front of the court in Bitola: „Walking from our village together with my friends Dimo and Velko, we went down to a garden near the village Kutretino, which is in by God protected kaza of Monastir. At midnight, while we were asleep, we were attacked by armed inhabitants of the village Kutretino. They killed my friends, Dimo and Velko and they dangerously wounded me 3 or 4 times, thinking that they killed me too. They left us by the willows near Tsrna Reka. They robbed us, taking 3 mules, 6,000 akçe (silver coins), 3 loads of wheat and other stuff”. The court in Bitola sent investigators in the village Kutretino, where they found the robbed blankets in the house of Goshe. After hearing the accused and the witnesses, the court in Bitola made the following verdict: “It is true that the mentioned Goshe is an old bandit and road raider. His full time job is to kill passengers who pass by his village and rob them. He is making riot in the Empire. It is necessary for him to disappear from the face of the Earth”.
Court Register of Sicil 1734 Source Document No.1, page 29 of Sicil 44 of the Bitola Court was composed on 26 December 1734. It is a plea sent to Sultan Mahmud I by certain Husein Bacdar to arrest the bandits Cocio Yorgo, Dimo Nano and Papa Kosta, all from Malovište, as well as the bandits Nicio Kiras and Papa Nicio from Gopeš, who robbed and killed his brother Bacdar Mustafa near the town of Prilep.
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Gopeš Place The village of Gopeš is a pre-Ottoman village in the region of Bitola. Theodor Capidan claims that the first Vlachs in Gopeš came from Moglena/Meglen in the second half of the 13th century. Some researchers claim that the village existed as a Vlach settlement as early as the start of the 14th century, though it may have been confused with another settlement of the same name in the Devol valley in Opar (Albania). G. Zuca thinks that the first Vlach settlers came to Gopeš before the mid-17th century, from Fourka near Konitsa. T. Papahagi states that the first Vlach nucleus in Gopeš came into being in the second half of the 17th century, and that these Vlachs from Moglena soon assimilated the indegenious Slavs. In the Ottoman registers of the sanjak Ohrid from 1583 15 Christian families and 19 male inhabitants are registered in Gopeš, though their names do not solve the dilemma, if these inhabitants were Vlachs or Slavs. G. Zuca writes that the original location of the village was 2-3 km south of its current location, at the place called Curia al Simu. In 1800 Gopeš reportedly had 120 houses, while 800 houses and 4,800 inhabitants were counted in 1870. In 1900 the Bulgarian Vassil Kančov registers 2,460 inhabitants in Gopeš, all Vlachs. In 2002 Gopeš had 53 houses with 0 (zero) inhabitants according to the population census conducted in the (FY) Republic of Macedonia. The village is located in mountainous terrain in the western part of the Municipality of Bitola. Between 23 and 31 December 1633 Nicio from the village of Gopeš accused some inhabitants of the village of Kutretino for robbing him and killing his friends. On 26 December 1734 a plea was sent to Sultan Mahmud I by certain Husein Bacdar to arrest the bandits Cocio Yorgo, Dimo Nano and Papa Kosta, all from Malovište, as well as the bandits Nicio Kiras and Papa Nicio from Gopeš, who robbed and killed his brother Bacdar Mustafa near the town of Prilep.
Malovište Place The village of Malovište is a traditional Vlach village from the pre-Ottoman period. During the Ottoman era the village is predominantly Vlach. Even in the 21st century the Vlachs form the majority of the population. Between 10 and 24 July 1622 Dervish Bay, sipahi of the village Gramos in the region of Argos Orestiko, declared: “I ask for a muhzir (court courier) to bring in front of this court Ghin, the ironmonger Kolcio, the priest Hristo, Doke Kuyunci, Nikola Ghin, Fote Lazo and other villagers from Gramos who now reside in Malovište, kaza Bitola, in order to pay the ispence (land tax levied on non-Muslims)”. In return, the mentioned villagers declared: “We will not go to court. Instead, we will kill you with stones and escape to the mountains.”. Between 30 August and 8 September 1639 it is stated in the Court Registers of Bitola that three Jews from Bitola accused the residents of Malovište for kidnapping the Jews Haim, Isaak and Haim from Bitola. Malovište is mentioned in a list of Christian villages in the region of Bitola from 26 December 1639 to 14 December 1640 with its number of houses (namely 55). In 1658 a bandit named Mishe, was convicted by the court in Bitola. Following the accusation that he is “a bandit who attempted to start a rebellion in the Empire”, Mishe admitted that he was “a bandit who attacked many places and robbed them”. Since Mishe was from the village of Malovište, it is highly probable that he was of Vlach descent. In May 1707 the Divan of Rumeli ordered the kadi of Bitola to catch, arrest, tie and send the villagers Dimo, Nicio and Volkan from Malovište, sons of Niko and Ianciur, to the Divan of Rumeli. In July 1709 a woman called Sora from the village of Malovište accused the bandit Ivan for killing and robbing her son Dimo. The Court in Bitola convicted Ivan. In November 1721 Dimo Pagor, Tane Simo, Kosta Petko, Cocio Dudu, Neto Kuyunci, Cocio Gogo, Simo son of Pancio, Yoryi Cioshcu, Hristu Papas, Kosta Papu, Edamo Iano and other inhabitants from the village of Malovište guaranteed for each other and they made a commitment to chase and catch bandits as well as to bring them to the Sharia. In May 1729 a plea is sent to Sultan Ahmed III to arrest the Christians Ludo Malo and Kudo Ludo for killing Haji Halil. In December 1734 a plea was sent by Husein Bacdar to the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud I to arrest the bandits Cocio Yorgo, Dimo Nano and Papa Kosta, all from Malovište, as well as the bandits Nicio Kiras and Papa Nicio from Gopeš, who had robbed and killed Husein Bacdar near the town of Prilep. Between 5 June and 3 July 1742 a list was composed consisting of all the names of the villagers from the nahiye Demir Hisar and Gyavato, assigned to chase and to arrest outlaws in the mentioned nahiye.