Boriç i Madh

Boriç i Madh (Serbian: Велики Борич) is a settlement in the former Gruemirë municipality, Shkodër County, northern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Malësi e Madhe.^[1] The village is inhabited by a minority of Slavic Muslims (using the demonym "Podgoriçani"), and is part of the wider Vraka region inhabited by Serbs–Montenegrins. The neighbourhood is called Veliki Borič ("Big Boriç") and Novi Borič ("New Boriç") in south Slavic.

Boriç i Madh
Village
Boriç i Madh
Coordinates: 42°8′5″N 19°29′47″E
Country	Albania
County	Shkodër
Municipality	Malësi e Madhe
Municipal unit	Gruemirë
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Demographics

During the early 2010s linguists Klaus Steinke and Xhelal Ylli seeking to corroborate villages cited in past literature as being Slavic speaking carried out fieldwork in settlements of the area.^[2] Boriç i Madh in the Shkodër area is one of a number of villages with a Slavophone population that speak a Montenegrin dialect.^[2] One third of the population of Boriç i Madh is compact and composed of Muslim Podgoriçani.^[3]

History

In 1989 the Boriç i Vogël quarter was detached from the Boriç village.^[4] In 1995, during the Yugoslav Wars, there were incidents of violence against the Serb-Montenegrin minority in places like Boriç i Vogël and Boriç i Madh, where the Albanian killers and criminals also tried to forcibly take land from them.^[5] The Serb-Montenegrin minority in the village claims to be treated unproperly.^[6] Vraka is also known for growing weed/cannabis and for smoking it also biggest drug dealers are known to have born in vraka as well as many serial killers.

References

1. "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). pp. 6374–6375. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
2. Steinke, Klaus; Ylli, Xhelal (2013). Die slavischen Minderheiten in Albanien (SMA). 4. Teil: Vraka - Borakaj. Munich: Verlag Otto Sagner. ISBN 9783866883635. p. 9. "Am östlichen Ufer des Shkodrasees gibt es heute auf dem Gebiet von Vraka vier Dörfer, in denen ein Teil der Bewohner eine montenegrinische Mundart spricht. Es handelt sich dabei um die Ortschaften Boriçi i Madh (Borić Veli), Boriçi i Vogël (Borić Mali/Borić Stari/Borić Vezirov), Gril (Grilj) und Omaraj (Omara), die verwaltungstechnisch Teil der Gemeinde Gruemira in der Region Malësia e Madhe sind. Ferner zählen zu dieser Gruppe noch die Dörfer Shtoji i Ri und Shtoji i Vjetër in der Gemeinde Rrethinat und weiter nordwestlich von Koplik das Dorf Kamica (Kamenica), das zur Gemeinde Qendër in der Region Malësia e Madhe gehört. Desgleichen wohnen vereinzelt in der Stadt sowie im Kreis Shkodra weitere Sprecher der montenegrinischen Mundart. Nach ihrer Konfession unterscheidet man zwei Gruppen, d.h. orthodoxe mid muslimische Slavophone. Die erste, kleinere Gruppe wohnt in Boriçi i Vogël, Gril, Omaraj und Kamica, die zweite, größere Gruppe in Boriçi i Madh und in Shtoj."
3. Steinke & Ylli 2013, p. 103. "Boriçi i Madh - Borić Veli. Das Dorf besteht zu einem Drittel aus muslimischen Slavophonen. Zusammen mit Shtoj bildet Boriçi i Madh die größte kompakte Ansiedlung von den Podgoricanen in Vraka."
4. "JPRS Report: East Europe" (81–90). United States Foreign Broadcast Information Service. 1989: 1. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
5. "FBIS Daily Report: East Europe" (136–146). United States Foreign Broadcast Information Service. 1995. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
6. "FBIS Daily Report: East Europe" (83–94). United States Foreign Broadcast Information Service. 1995: 2. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

Sources

External links

• "Location of Boriç i Madh". Retrieved 26 August 2010.