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9-631: The village of Grnčari is inhabited by an Sunni Muslim Albanian speaking majority and Orthodox Macedonian minority. A few Turkish speaking families are also present in Grnčari. Sunni Albanians in Grnčari traditionally highlighted their religious identity over a linguistic one having closer economic and social relations with Turks and Macedonian Muslims in the region and being distant from Orthodox Macedonians. Over time these differences have disappeared through intermarriage, closer communal and cultural relations with Bektashi and other Sunni Prespa Albanian communities in

18-497: A generic term for Muslims or pressure by Yugoslav authorities to do so. In the 2002 census, Albanians form a large ethnic majority in the village. Local football club KF Lirija Gërçar play in the Macedonian Third League (Southwest Division). 41°01′N 21°03′E  /  41.017°N 21.050°E  / 41.017; 21.050 Vasil Kanchov Vasil Kanchov (26 July 1862 – 6 February 1902)

27-510: A long time. Kanchov Peak on Loubet Coast , Antarctica is named after Vasil Kanchov. Loubet Coast Loubet Coast is the portion of the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctic Peninsula , extending 158 km between Cape Bellue to the northeast and Bourgeois Fjord to the southwest. South of Loubet Coast is Fallières Coast , north is Graham Coast . The coast is named after Émile Loubet , President of France during

36-461: The "travel book". Vasil Kanchov was killed in his office by a psychopath. About him one of the founders of IMRO - Ivan Hadzhinikolov , said that Kanchov once had claimed that he came as a teacher in Thessaloniki to Bulgarianize Macedonia. Hadzhinikolov replied that he was overestimating himself, as Macedonia had long been Bulgarian and that Macedonian Bulgarians had been working for this for

45-516: The Bulgarian settlements on the Anatolian side of the sea Manyas Lake . He wrote down almost every moment of his 9-day trip. He first went from Istanbul to Mudanya , then to Bursa , then to Karacabey , Bandırma and finally to Gönen , interviewed Bulgarian families, examined the structures of the villages, researched places of worship. The things they wrote had the characteristics of what we can call

54-554: The beginning of 1902 he became an educational minister of Bulgaria. He travelled extensively after 1888, visiting and researching all over Macedonia. Vasil Kanchov, who went to Istanbul with the financial support of a Bulgarian magazine at the beginning of 1899, was planning to research and observe the European side of the Marmara, but without giving a full reason, he postponed his visit to the aforementioned region and decided to wander around

63-642: The following years Kanchov was a Bulgarian teacher in Macedonia . He was a teacher in the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki (1888–1891), a director of Bulgarian schools in Serres district (1891–1892), a headmaster of Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki (1892–1893), а chief school inspector of the Bulgarian schools in Macedonia (1894–1897). After 1898 Kanchov returned to Bulgaria and went into politics. In

72-457: The region. In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Grnčari was inhabited by 165 Bulgarian Christians and 300 Muslim Albanians. In 1905 in statistics gathered by Dimitar Mishev Brancoff, Grnčari was inhabited by 120 Bulgarian Exarchists and 360 Muslim Albanians. After World War Two, some Albanian settlements in Yugoslavia declared themselves as Turks due to the word being

81-815: Was a geographer , ethnographer and teacher who served as Minister of Education of Bulgaria . Vasil Kanchov was born in Vratsa . Upon graduating from High school in Lom, Bulgaria , and later he entered the University of Harkov , then in the Russian empire . During the Serbo-Bulgarian War 1885 he suspended his education and took part in the war. Later, he went on to pursue studies at universities in Munich and Stuttgart , but in 1888 he interrupted his education again due to an illness. In

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