Frangovo (; ) is a village in the municipality of Struga, North Macedonia. In the 2021 census, it had a population of 1,206, of which the majority were Albanians.
Name All forms of the toponym are derived from the form Frangovo, by reduction of the original sound cluster an into ân/ën or the denasalisation of the latter (Frangovo, Frngovo, Frgovo). The form Фрургови Власи/Frugovi Vlasi has a Serbian denasalisation of the sound cluster an > o̧ > u of which the toponym was first recorded in a medieval document of Emperor Stefan Dušan, probably written by a Serb. This is a possessive name formed with a suffix that is derived from the ethnonym Frang/Frank meaning (Western) Europeans or someone not of the Balkans and is probably associated with the Crusades era. "Сите приведени форми потекнуваат од формата Франгово, со редуцирање на првобитната група -ан- во -ън- или деназализација на последната (Франгово, Фрнгово, Фргово). Формата Фрургови Власи има српска деназализација на -ан- > -o̧- > -у (спорот на пр. Фрушка Гора во Србија), бидејќи документот на Душан веројатно го пишал Србин. Ова е посесивно име образувано со суфикот - ово од етнонимот Франг // Франк 'Европаец, не-Балканец' и веројатно е сврзана со крстоносните походи (в. с. 21)."
History During the mid-fourteenth century, a document of Stefan Dušan refers to property of the Church of Sts. Clement and Panteleimon in Ohrid with the settlement recorded under the name Frugovi Vlasi, which later possibly broke up into two villages identified as being modern Frangovo and nearby Mali Vlaj. p. 423. "Some two centuries later, in the mid-fourteenth century, a resolution of the Serbian Tsar Stefan Dušan regarding the property of the Church of St Clement in Ohrid mention the existence of what was probably a Vlach settlement by the name of Frugovi Vlasi. It probably broke up later on, but may be identified with the modern villages of Frangovo and Mali Vlaj south-west of Struga."
Vasil Kanchov's 1900 survey recorded 360 Muslim Arnauts in Фъргово. In 1901, Фаргово was an Albanian village with 45 houses in the Ethnographic Map of the Bitola Vilayet.
Geography This large village with surface area of 9.4 square kilometers is situated in the southwestern part of Struga Municipality near the border of Albania. Its territory extends up to the ridge of Mount Jakupica. As a hilly village, it has an elevation of 810 meters.
Demographics
Ethnicities The village of Frangovo is inhabited by Tosks, a subgroup of southern Albanians and speak the Tosk Albanian dialect. "Ladorishti, Frëngova, Zagraçani dhe Kalishti fshatra toske" "Fshatrat e rrethinës së Strugës siç janë: Kalishti, Frengova, Ladorishti, Zagraçani dhe Shumi flasin në dialektin toskë, kurse në të gjithë fshatrat e tjerë flitet gegënishtja".
The historical ethnic makeup of this village is as follows:In 1948, the population was 652, with no recorded ethnic composition. EthnicityYear19531961197119811991199420022021Macedonians37134000—Albanians7168421,0841,24901,5541,7341,156Turks0000000—Roma0000000—Aromanians10—0000—Serbs4100000—Bosniaks00——0001Others001100513Total7588441,0881,25401,5541,7391,206There are 36 "persons for whom the data has been obtained from administrative sources".
Sex distribution The historical population of both sexes in this village is as follows:
Sex Year 1948 1953 1961 1971 1981 1991 1994 2002 Male 343 411 450 569 645 — 788 893 Female 309 347 394 519 609 — 766 846 Notes
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