S'lp, Kičevo
Village in Southwestern, North Macedonia
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S'lp (Macedonian: С’лп, Albanian: Sop) is a historical village in the municipality of Kičevo, North Macedonia.
S'lp
С’лп Sop | |
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Village | |
  S'lp Location within North Macedonia | |
| Coordinates: 41.4131600°N 21.0202100°E | |
| Country | North Macedonia |
| Region | Southwestern |
| Municipality | Kičevo |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Website | . |
History
The village is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kırçova. The village had a total of 20 houses, excluding bachelors (mucerred).[1]
73 Albanians of Sop were killed by Serbian soldiers.[2] The village was razed to the ground, and its land reallocated to neighboring settlements.[3]
Demographics
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of S'lp was inhabited by 220 Muslim Albanians.[4]