Gorna Banjica
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Gorna Banjica
Горна Бањица Banjicë e Epërme Yukarı Banisa | |
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Village | |
  Gorna Banjica Location within North Macedonia | |
| Coordinates: 41°47′N 20°54′E / 41.783°N 20.900°E | |
| Country |  North Macedonia |
| Region |  Polog |
| Municipality |  Gostivar |
| Population (2002) | |
• Total | 4,423 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Car plates | GV |
| Website | . |
Gorna Banjica (Macedonian: Горна Бањица, Turkish: Yukarı Banisa, Albanian: Banjicë e Epërme) is a village in the municipality of Gostivar, North Macedonia.
Gorna Banjica is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 37 Christian households, 7 widows and 2 bachelors.[1][2]
A policy of Turkification of the Albanian population was employed by the Yugoslav authorities in cooperation with the Turkish government, stretching the period of 1948-1959. Starting in 1948, Turkish schools were opened in areas with large Albanian majorities, such as Gorna Banjica.[3]
