Vlasiḱi (, ) is an abandoned village in the municipality of Centar Župa, North Macedonia. The settlement of Vlasiḱi was once a neighborhood of the nearby village of Balanci.
Demographics Vlasiḱi (Ilasiçe) is recorded in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a village in the vilayet of Upper Dibra, part of the timar of Karagjoz. The settlement was attested as being uninhabited.
According to Ottoman tahrir defters from the 1520s, 16 villages (all present-day Centar Župa villages) associated with Kala-i Kodžadžik had no Muslim population. However, the Muslim population increased in subsequent years. This was likely part of the Islamization of Macedonia under Turkish rule.367 NUMARALI MUHÂSEBE-İ VİLÂYET-İ RÛM-İLİ DEFTERİ İLE 94 ve 1078 NUMARALI AVLONYA LİVÂSI TAHRÎR DEFTERLERİ (926-1520/937-1530) "In the 1520 and 1530 year tahrir: Dizdār, nefer 1 Kethudā, nefer 1 İmām, nefer 1 Merdān-ı kal‘a, neferan 28 Kurā 16 Mezra‘a 1 Hāne-i müslim 1 Mücerred-i müslim 1 Hāne-i gebrān (Christian) 635 Mücerred-i gebrān 67 Bīve 26 Hāsıl 47.035 According to the Tahrir defter, Kocacık and its villages were in 1530 1-Kocacık kl. 2- Gorenci 3-Pariş 4-Boroşiniçe 5-Çirnibok 6-Yukarı Papranik 7-Aşağı Papranik 8-Koçişte 9-Breştani 10-Novak 11-Aşağı Elişiçe 12-Gorna Elişiçe 13-Osolniçe 14-Porovalenik 15-Vilasik 16-Tırnovnik"
In the late Ottoman period, Vlasiḱi was traditionally inhabited by an Orthodox Macedonian and Muslim Macedonian (Torbeš) population. "Денес, непостојното село Власиќи било мешано христијанско и муслиманско македонско село." In the twentieth century, the village when inhabited had Albanians living in Vlasiḱi. p. 326. "Население со албански мајчин јазик живее... во областа Жупа во селата Власиќе, Баланци, Житинени, Броштица (во последниве три села заедно со Македонци од муслиманската конфесија)". "Селото е некогашно маало на c. Баланци... Населението е сега муслиманско, се декларира како Шиптари."
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 0 inhabitants.Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 89.
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