Urvič (, ) is a village in the municipality of Bogovinje, North Macedonia.
History According to the 1467-68 Ottoman defter, Urvič appears as being inhabited by Orthodox Christian Slavic population.
According to the data gathered by the Serbian geographer and anthropologist Jovan Trifunoski, the inhabitants of the village are of Slavic Macedonian and Albanian origin. Today, most of the inhabitants self-identify as Turks.
Demographics Urvič is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 100 Christian households, 4 bachelors and 9 widows.Турски документи за историјата на македонскиот народ кн.4, Методија Соколоски, д-р Александар Стојановски, Скопје 1971
Urvič, along with Jelovjane is one of two Gorani villages located in North Macedonia. The inhabitants speak the Gora dialect of Eastern South Slavic. "Данашњи становници Урвича и Јеловјана на супротној, полошкој страни Шар-Планине, пореклом су Горани. Много су више утицале на исељавање Горана политичке промене, настале после 1912 године. Тада се скоро четвртина становништва иселила у Турску, за коју су се преко вере и дуге управе били интимно везали. Још једна миграција јаче је захватила Горане, али не у нашој земљи, него оне који су остали у границама Арбаније."
As of the 2021 census, Urvič had 746 residents with the following ethnic composition:Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021 Turks 627 Albanians 101 Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 10 Others 8
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 756 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 111. Turks 640 Albanians 113 Macedonians 1 Serbs 6 Others 2
According to the 1942 Albanian census, Urvič was inhabited by 987 Muslim Albanians.
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Urvič was inhabited by 360 Muslim Bulgarians.Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 264.
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