Golem Papradnik
Golem Papradnik is a village in the municipality of Centar Župa, North Macedonia.
Demographics
Golem Papradnik is recorded in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a village in the vilayet of Upper Dibra. The settlement was abandoned.According to Ottoman tahrir defters from the 1520s, 16 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.
Golem Papradnik has traditionally been inhabited by a Turkish population.
As of the 2021 census, Golem Papradnik had 443 residents with the following ethnic composition:
- Turks 329
- Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 79
- Macedonians 22
- Albanians 11
- Others 2
- Turks 799
- Macedonians 30
- Albanians 1
- Others 10