Boriç i Vogël

Boriç i Vogël
Village
Boriç i Vogël
Coordinates: 42°7′52″N 19°30′0″E / 42.13111°N 19.50000°E / 42.13111; 19.50000Coordinates: 42°7′52″N 19°30′0″E / 42.13111°N 19.50000°E / 42.13111; 19.50000
Country Albania Albania
County Shkodër
Municipality Malësi e Madhe
Administrative Unit Gruemirë
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)

Boriç i Vogël is a settlement in the former Gruemirë municipality, Shkodër County, northern Albania.[1] At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Malësi e Madhe.[2] The village is inhabited by a majority of Serb-Montenegrins, and minority of Albanians, and is part of the wider Vraka region inhabited by the Serb-Montenegrins. The village is called Stari Borič or Mali Borič in Serbian.

Demographics

The village is inhabited by a community which hails from Montenegro, as is the case with many other in the region;[3] the Serb-Montenegrin community is present in the villages of Vraka.[4] They were until recently the only inhabitants of the village.[4] In 1990, out of a total of 75 households in the village, 67 were Orthodox Serb-Montenegrin, and 8 Albanian; out of 650 inhabitants, Serb-Montenegrins were 580 and the rest Albanian.[4] In recent times the Albanian term Vogël ("small") is increasingly used, in line with state regulations on non-Albanian toponyms being changed.[4]

History

In 1989 the Boriç i Vogël quarter was detached from the Boriç village.[5] In 1995, during the Yugoslav Wars, it was reported that there were incidents of violence against the Serb-Montenegrin minority in places like Boriç i Vogël and Boriç i Madh, where the Albanian government also tried to forcibly take land from them.[6] The Serb-Montenegrin minority in Shkodër and Malësia e Madhë claims to be treated unproperly.[7] Albanian police detained a number of people from the village, after resumption of trial of Beqir Leshevic accused of spying for the Yugoslav secret service.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Location of Boriç i Vogël". Retrieved 26 August 2010.
  2. ↑ Law nr. 115/2014
  3. ↑ "Socialist Thought and Practice" (1-10). Jugoslavija. 1989: 20.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Šćepanović 1991.
  5. ↑ "JPRS Report: East Europe" (81-90). United States Foreign Broadcast Information Service. 1989: 1.
  6. ↑ "FBIS Daily Report: East Europe" (136-146). United States Foreign Broadcast Information Service. 1995.
  7. 1 2 "FBIS Daily Report: East Europe" (83-94). United States Foreign Broadcast Information Service. 1995: 2.

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