Selci, Struga
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Selci is a village in Municipality of Struga, North Macedonia.{{cite web|url=http://makedonija.name/municipalities/struga/selci|title=Selci Struga, Macedonia - Selci Struga | Selci map|publisher=makedonija.name|accessdate=2016-03-21}}
Demographics
Selci (Silec) is recorded in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a village in the vilayet of Upper Dibra, part of the timar of Muhidin. The settlement was recorded as abandoned.{{cite book |last1=Caka |first1=Eduart |title=Defteri i hollësishëm për zonat e dibrës i vitit 1467 |date=2019 |publisher=Akademia e studimeve albanologjike instituti historisë |location=Tiranë |page=58}}
In the 19th century Selci was a Bulgarian village in Debar kaza of the Ottoman Empire.Арсени Йовков, "Българи в Македония", публикувано във в-к "20 юли. Македоно - Одрински лист", год. I, бр. 1, София, 14 април 1924 година.Лазар Димитров, "Кратки етнографски бележки за Дебърско с оглед към говора в тоя край" в "Известия на семинара по Славянска филология", София, 1905 година, стр. 266. According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov ("Macedonia. Ethnography and Statistics") in 1900 there were 1,050 Bulgarian inhabitants, all Christians.Кѫнчовъ, Василъ. Македония. Етнография и статистика. София, Българското книжовно дружество, 1900. ISBN 954430424X. p. 260. The entire Christian population of the village is under the rule of Bulgarian Exarchate. According to the Secretary of the Exarchate Dimitar Mishev ("La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne”) in 1905 there were 1,144 Bulgarian Exarchists in Selce and a Bulgarian school operated in the village.Brancoff, D. M. La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne : Avec deux cartes etnographiques. Paris, Librarie Plon, Plon-Nourrit et Cie, Imprimeurs-Éditeurs, 1905. p. 184-185. According to statistics from the newspaper Debarski Glas in 1911 in Selci there were 150 Bulgarian Exarchate houses.Дебърски глас, година 2, брой 38, 3 април 1911, стр. 2.
According to the 2002 census, the village was without inhabitants.„Министерство за Локална Самоуправа. База на општински урбанистички планови“. As of the 2021 census, Selci had 6 residents with the following ethnic composition:[https://makstat.stat.gov.mk/PXWeb/pxweb/en/MakStat/MakStat__Popisi__Popis2021__NaselenieVkupno__PodatociNaselenie/T1503P21.px/table/tableViewLayout2/?rxid=cc8e0490-07b6-4002-adf4-9b4891b66655 Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021]
- Macedonians 5
- Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 1