Grnčari

The village of Grnčari is inhabited by a Sunni Muslim Albanian speaking majority and Orthodox Macedonian minority. A few Turkish speaking families are also present in Grnčari. Sunni Albanians in Grnčari traditionally highlighted their religious identity over a linguistic one having closer economic and social relations with Turks and Macedonian Muslims in the region and being distant from Orthodox Macedonians. Over time these differences have disappeared through intermarriage, closer communal and cultural relations with Bektashi and other Sunni Prespa Albanian communities in the region.{{cite book|last=Sugarman|first=Jane|title=Engendering song: Singing and subjectivity at Prespa Albanian weddings|year=1997|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=9780226779720|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x41vWj_ESu8C&q=Roma&pg=PR9|pages=9–11}}

In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Grnčari was inhabited by 165 Bulgarian Christians and 300 Muslim Albanians.Vasil Kanchov (1900). [http://www.promacedonia.org/vk/vk_2_36.htm Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics]. Sofia. p. 241. In 1905 in statistics gathered by Dimitar Mishev Brancoff, Grnčari was inhabited by 120 Bulgarian Exarchists and 360 Muslim Albanians.D.M.Brancoff (1905). La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne. Paris. pp. 170-171. After World War Two, some Albanian settlements in Yugoslavia declared themselves as Turks due to the word being a generic term for Muslims or pressure by Yugoslav authorities to do so.Brunnbauer, Ulf (2004). "Fertility, families and ethnic conflict: Macedonians and Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia, 1944–2002." Nationalities papers. 32. (3): 568. "The decrease of the proportion of Albanians between 1948 and 1953 was due to the fact that in 1953 many Albanian-speaking Muslims identified themselves as "Turks" in order to be able to emigrate to Turkey. Hence the share of the "Turkish" population grew from 8.3% in 1948 to 15.6% in 1953. During the 1950s, around 130,000 "Turks" emigrated from Yugoslav Macedonia to Turkey, as a result of an emigration agreement between Yugoslavia and Turkey."; p. 583. "Once communist power was established, the Albanians, and the Muslim communities in general, felt increasingly alienated from the state, for example, because of its anti-religious agenda, its ethnic Macedonian outlook, the strong Serbian influence, and its radical attempts to change the role of women…. The local elites of the Albanians, and especially the Muslim clergy, had associated inclusion in the social mainstream with the dangers of cultural pollution and assimilation. This alienation from socialist transformation was among the reasons why thousands of Albanians emigrated as "Turks" to Turkey in the 1950s. Hence, the effects of discrimination by state authorities were multiplied by those of self-isolation."Friedman, Victor (2003). "[http://mahimahi.uchicago.edu/media/faculty/vfriedm/172Friedman03.pdf Language in Macedonia as an identity construction site.]" In Joseph, Brian (ed). When Languages Collide: Perspectives on Language Conflict, Language Competition, and Language Coexistence]. Ohio State university press. p. 272. When the 1948 census was conducted, relations between Yugoslavia and Albania were good while those between Yugoslavia and Turkey were not. By 1953, Tito had broken with Stalin and in the wake of that split Yugoslavia had broken with Albania while improving relations with Turkey. The subsequent decades saw both emigration to Turkey (sometimes for economic reasons, but see also Akan 2000, 81—1 19) by those declaring Turkish nationality (sometimes declared on the basis of Muslim religion rather than Turkish mother tongue) as well as rising Albanian nationalism and pressure on Muslims in Kosovo and Western Macedonia to declare Albanian nationality (Tanasković 1992 143—44; Akan 2000, 179—221). The 1981 census was the last uncontested census conducted in former Yugoslavia. In the 2002 census, Albanians form a large ethnic majority in the village.[http://makstat.stat.gov.mk/pxweb2007bazi/Database/Censuses/Censuses%20of%20population%201948-2002/Censuses%20of%20population%201948-2002.asp Censuses of population 1948 - 2002] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014071758/http://makstat.stat.gov.mk/pxweb2007bazi/Database/Censuses/Censuses%20of%20population%201948-2002/Censuses%20of%20population%201948-2002.asp |date=2013-10-14 }}

Local football club KF Lirija Gërçar play in the Macedonian Third League (Southwest Division).

File:Grnčari village 1.jpg|Fields of Grnčari, with Lake Prespa and Galičica mountains in the background

File:Grnčari village 45.jpg|Architecture of Grnčari

File:Grnčari 4.JPG|A house modeled on the Resen Saraj mansion of Niyaz bey.

File:Викиекспедиција Преспа 392.jpg|View from Grnčari of the road toward Podmočani.

File:Grnčari village 5.jpg|Local football ground of Grnčari football team

File:Xhamia e Gërçarit 1.jpg|Mosque and Muslim cemetery of Grnčari

File:Teqeja e Baba Saliut, në Gërçar.jpg|Tekke of Sali Baba, Grnčari

File:Викиекспедиција Преспа 391.jpg|Church of St. Athanasius and Orthodox cemetery, Grnčari

File:St. Elijah Monastery (Grnčari) 42.jpg|St. Elijah Monastery, Grnčari (built 18th century)

File:St. Elijah Monastery (Grnčari) 26.jpg|Iconostasis of St. Elijah Monastery, Grnčari

File:St. Elijah Monastery (Grnčari) 15.jpg|Forest of Grnčari on the slopes of the Baba mountain range

File:Gnchari home.jpg|1960's Grnčari home built with local, low cost, sustainable materials.

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