Gjoricë Explained

Type:	mu
Official Name:	Gjoricë
County:	Dibër
Municipality:	Bulqizë
Coordinates:	41.5333°N 47°W
Population As Of:	2011
Population Unit:	4214

Gjoricë (in Albanian pronounced as /ɟɔɾit͡s/) is a former municipality in the Dibër County, eastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Bulqizë.^[1] The population at the 2011 census was 4,214.^[2]

Demographics

In 1900, Vasil Kanchov traveled throughout the region and reported on who lived there, finding that the towns of what is now the Gjoricë municipality included Gjoricë (Bulgarian: Горица Gorica) with 900 Albanian Muslims, Viçisht with 130 Albanian Muslims and Lubalesh with 160 Albanian Muslims.^[3]

Lubalesh has some Torbeš living in the village.^[4]

During the 2000s linguists Klaus Steinke and Xhelal Ylli in search of Slavic speaking villages in Albania carried out fieldwork in settlements of the area. They visited villages such as Gjoricë and in that area found no Slavic speaking populations. Additionally detailed interviews with local inhabitants did not indicate that there where other places with Slavic speaking people inhabitants in this area.^[5]

Notable people

• Vladan Gjurica, one of the principal advisors of Skanderbeg and chief army quartermaster

References

1. Web site: Law nr. 115/2014 . sq . 6367. 25 February 2022 .
2. Web site: 2011 census results . 2015-01-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234141/http://www.instat.gov.al/media/195811/2__diber.pdf . 2016-03-03 . dead .
3. [Vasil Kanchov]
4. Book: Vidoeski, Božidar. Dijalektite na makedonskiot jazik. Vol. 1. 1998. Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite. 9789989649509. p. 309. "Во западна Македонија исламизирано македонско население живее во неколку географски региони на македонско-албанската пограничје:... Голо Брдо (Врмница, Владимирци, Гиновци, Клење, Лешничани, Љуболези, Големо и Мало Острени, Окштун, Отишани, Пасинки, Радовиште, Себишча, Српетово, Стеблево, Тучепи, Торбач, Џепишта)"; p. 339. "Во повеќето од спомнативе села живее население - со македонски и со албански мачин јазик. Албанското население доминира во северните голобрдски села (Себишта, Пасинки, Врмница, Големо и Мало Острени). Селата: Лешничани, Требиште, Српетово, Торбач, Љуболези, Владимирица и Тучепи се населени со Македонски муслимани (Торбеши), а во Себишта, Требиште, Г. и М. Острени живее мешано население - православни и Торбеши."
5. Book: Steinke. Klaus. Ylli. Xhelal. Die slavischen Minderheiten in Albanien (SMA): Golloborda - Herbel - Kërçishti i Epërm. Teil 2. 2008. Munich. Verlag Otto Sagner. 9783866880351. 252. p. 252. "Stichprobenartig haben wir auch überprüft, ob es gegenwärtig weitere slavophone Einwohner beider Religionen in anderen Dörfern dieses Gebiets gibt. Weder der Besuch in Bllata, Gjorica usw., noch die ausführlichen Befragungen unserer Informanten sowie anderer Bewohner des Gebietes haben irgendwelche Hinweise auf weitere Orte mit slavophonen Einwohnern in diesem Bereich ergeben."