Trnica

Trnica is a historic village in the municipality of Mavrovo and Rostuša, North Macedonia.

History

Due to uprisings in the Upper Reka region, Trnica was burned down by Serbian and Bulgarian forces between 1912 and 1916.

Demographics

Trnica is attested in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a village in the ziamet of Reka. The village had one household and the anthroponym recorded depict an Albanian character: Gjergj Andrija.
According to the 1942 Albanian census, Trnica was inhabited by 28 Muslim Albanians.
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Trnica was inhabited by 240 Muslim Albanians.