Blace, Brvenica
village in Brvenica Municipality, North Macedonia
Blace (Macedonian: Блаце) is a village in the municipality of Brvenica, North Macedonia.
Demographics
Blace is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 68 Christian households, one bachelor and three widows.
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 344 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:
Macedonians 344
According to the 1942 Albanian census, Blace was inhabited by six Serbs and 433 Bulgarians.
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Blace was inhabited by 440 Christian Bulgarians.
The public source identifies “Blace, Brvenica” as village in Brvenica Municipality, North Macedonia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Blace, Brvenica and village.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2906274. Authority coordinates are 41.895, 21.020. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1467, 2002, 1942 and 1900.
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