Pršovce


Pršovce is a village in the municipality of Tearce, North Macedonia.

Name

The name appears in medieval records as Prushefc, from the Latin loan into Albanian pirus-prush and the Slavic suffix ovci/e.

History

Pršovce is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry for the Nahiyah of Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 61 Christian households, 3 bachelors and 3 widows.
According to the 1467-68 Ottoman defter, Pršovce exhibits mostly Slavic Orthodox anthroponomy with a small minority of Albanian ones.

Demographics

As of the 2021 census, Pršovce had 1,923 residents with the following ethnic composition:
  • Albanians 1,871
  • Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 37
  • Macedonians 11
  • Others 4
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 2,516 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Pršovce was inhabited by 165 Muslim Albanians.