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Capidan 1925

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ID 15490
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Case Study Ethnonym of the Vlachs

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Theodora Capidan, Meglenoromânii. Istoria şi graiul lor, Vol. I (Bucureşti 1925).

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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 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 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.
Register of nahie Chroupichta 1568/69 I. Source The Register for citizens in nahie Chroupichta, part of the Grand Register of Pasha Sanjak, was composed in 1568/69. Pages 142a and 142b of the Register refer to the male citizens of Mahalle (the name of this district is unreadable in the original document) in the village of Gramos. In total, this neighbourhood had 106 male heads of families and 42 unmarried men, whose names are registered in the Census.
Register of nahie Chroupichta 1568/69 II. Source The Register for citizens in nahie Chroupichta, part of the Grand Register of Pasha Sanjak, was composed in 1568/69. Pages 142b and 143a of the Register refer to the male citizens of Mahalle (District) Mici in the village of Gramos. In total, this neighbourhood had 63 male heads of families and 44 unmarried men, whose names are registered in the Census.
Register of nahie Chroupichta 1568/69 III Source The Register for citizens in nahie Chroupichta, part of the Grand Register of Pasha Sanjak, was composed in 1568/69. Pages 143a, 143b and 144a of the Register refer to the male citizens of Mahalle (District) Mina in the village of Gramos. In total, this neighbourhood had 112 male heads of families and 84 unmarried men, whose names are registered in the Census.
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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.