Krakornica
Krakornica is a village in the municipality of Mavrovo and Rostuša, North Macedonia.
Geography
Krakornica is located between the Korab and Šar Mountains. It is located 31km from the town of Gostivar. At an altitude of 1530 m, it is considered the highest inhabited settlement in North Macedonia.History
Krakornica is recorded in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a village in the ziamet of Reka. The settlement had a total of three households represented by household heads all bearing Albanian anthroponymy. In 1519, the village counted 12 Christian married families and 1 bachelor. In the 1583 census, the village of Kakornica counted 1 Muslim and 20 Christian families respectively, and 1 bachelor. One mill was working and the timar was paid 1113 akçe annually. The Christian anthroponyms recorded were Albanian and mixed Slavic-Albanian in character.:.According to Ethnographie des Vilayets D'Andrinople, de Monastir, et de Salonique, published in Constantinople in 1878, the village had a total of 80, households with 83 Muslim Albanian and 120 Orthodox Albanian inhabitants.
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Krakornica was inhabited by 180 Christian Albanians and 180 Muslim Albanians. In 1905 in statistics gathered by Dimitar Mishev Brancoff, Krakornica was inhabited by 210 Albanians and had a Bulgarian school. Christian Albanians were attracted by Serbian propaganda and according to the statistics of the newspaper " Debarski Glas " in 1911 there were 64 Albanian Patriarchist houses in Krakornica.
Due to the Balkan Wars, Muslim residents of Krakornica abandoned the village.
According to a 1929 ethnographic map by Russian Slavist Afanasy Selishchev, Krakornica was an Albanian village.