He noted that there are many in the village of Nokje, which is the largest in the area, and that it is characteristic that the villagers crossed into Islam. The traveler could not find out when the Vlachs went to Islam and believed that Islam had received it to protect themselves from violence when the Yuruks settled in these areas. The Mohammedan Vlachs live in the Nokje village, and their language was different from other Vlachs in Macedonia. They were border guards and were scattered across Macedonian borders