Boriç i Vogël (Serbian: Мали Борич) 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.
Boriç i Vogël
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Coordinates: 42°7′52″N 19°30′0″E / 42.13111°N 19.50000°E / 42.13111; 19.50000 | |
Country | Albania |
County | Shkodër |
Municipality | Malësi e Madhe |
Municipal unit | Gruemirë |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
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.[3] Boriç i Vogël in the Shkodër area is one of a number of villages with a Slavophone population that speak a Montenegrin dialect.[3] The village Boriç i Vogël is inhabited by 15 families and the Slavophone families are the only compact group of the Orthodox in Vraka.[4]
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]
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