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Ginovci

village in North Macedonia

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ3120641 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ginovci (Macedonian: Гиновци) is a village in the municipality of Rankovce, North Macedonia.

Name

The name is derived from the Albanian name Gjin.

Demographics

As of the 2021 census, Ginovci had 312 residents with the following ethnic composition:

Macedonians 293

Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 19

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 315 inhabitants.

Editorial summary

“Ginovci” enters the record as village in North Macedonia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ginovci, village and North can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ginovci, village and North.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Ginovci” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ginovci, village and North provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3120641. Authority coordinates are 42.179, 22.158. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 2002.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Ginovci”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ginovci primary sources, Ginovci archive and Ginovci research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Ginovci”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Ginovci” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.