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	Urban Dictionary: torbesh
		note that not all slavic muslims in macedonia are torbesh.
		its debated by historians if the torbesh are originally croats or serbs or macedonians or bulgarians.
		torbesh are a result of 500 years of ottoman rule
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=torbesh (146 words)

	Pomaks, Bulgaria, Turks, Turkey, Thrace, Pomak, brought, Greece, forced, Turkish, Rhodope, Popovic, Europe - Pomaks
		With the end of the process of conversion the Pomaks (and the Torbesh) found themselves concentated in the Rhodopes, but with important settlements in eastern Macedonia and on the Danube districts, where they could be found centered around Lovech, Pleven and Oryahovo.
		The agha in 1890 also had a permanent ambassador at Plovdiv that provided visitors with a special visa to the territory controlled by the Rhodope Pomaks.
		The Czech historian Konstantin JireÄek estimated at the turn of the 19th century that Torbesh and Pomaks were no less than half a million, even if Turkish sources reduce this number to 200,000.
	www.alphasearch.org /Pomaks.html (2091 words)

	Encyclopedia: Torbesh
		The last Macedonian census of 2002 confirmed the deep split in the Torbesh community of the Republic of Macedonia but members of it declared themselves mainly as Macedonian Muslims.
		Bosniaks (Bosnian: BoÅ¡njaci) are a Southeast European ethnic group, descended from Slavic converts to Islam during the Ottoman period (15th-19th century), living primarily in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
		Rusyns, also called Ruthenians, Ruthenes, Rusins, Rysins, Carpatho-Rusins, and Russniaks, are a modern group of ethnic groups that speak the Rusyn language and are descended from the Ruthenians that did not become Ukrainians in the 19th century.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Torbesh (631 words)

	Torbesh - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Torbesh are a Muslim Slav Macedonian peoples.
		Torbesh do not have very firm Macedonian national affiliations, nor a separate, Torbesh identity.
		Torbesh, Slavs, Ethnic groups of Europe and Muslim communities.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Torbesh (141 words)

	Torbesh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Part of this same group only with a different name are also Gorani in Kosovo.
		The last Macedonian census of 2002 confirmed the deep split in the Torbesh community of the Republic of Macedonia, however, members of it declared themselves mainly as the Macedonian Muslims.
		The Torbesh are related to the Albanians and live in western Macedonia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Torbesh (167 words)

	Slavic peoples - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Some Sorbs profess Protestantism, as do certain Slovaks, and a few Czechs and Slovenians.
		Most Bosniaks, Pomaks, Gorani, and Torbesh are Muslims.
		The Orthodox/Catholic religious divisions become further exacerbated by the use of the Cyrillic alphabet by the Orthodox and Uniates (Greek Catholics) and of the Roman alphabet by Roman Catholics.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/s/l/a/Slavic_peoples.html (1661 words)

	Kosovo: Travelling to Meet Goranians
		Word "torbesh" (coming from word "torba" which means a bag) comes from the, so called, torbesh Bogumils who easily gave up on their religion and converted to Islam.
		According to Vasil Kanchov and Jordan Ivanov, "Torbesh" from Shar mountain (Goranians) are of Bulgarian ethnical background and they speak in Bulgarian dialect.
		Having travelled throughout this area I can say that their language is not Bosnian and it is not Serbian either; it is more similar to the western Macedonian dialects and it is actually a Bulgarian dialect with nasal vocals.
	www.viaggiareibalcani.org /ENGLISH/kossovo/gorani.htm (3316 words)

	society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Oreshe and Papradishte; with "Torbesh villages"; with (Alb) villages.
		Life in an extended family was usual to the Torbesh natives of Gorno Vranovci.
		Bigamy was a rare occurrence and it could be found with the Torbesh (M) (GV), while it was more common with the (Alb) from the village of Jabolchishta.
	194.149.146.8 /ethnology/DEPARTMENT%20OF%20ETHNOLOGY/VELES/society.htm (1661 words)

	U.N. police corps in Kosovo accused of killings, abuses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The victim had been the subject of an attack in a newspaper article, written by a former KLA fighter.
		In Prizren, a man from the Torbesh minority --- a group of Muslim Turks --- was kidnapped and beaten by a KPC member and three other men.
		Also in Prizren, the KPC is accused of using torture to obtain confessions from two men arrested on suspicion of stealing cars.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines/031400-03.htm (513 words)

	EOL 4: Kavals article, p 6
		In 1998, a Macedonian friend and I visited the villages along the Radica River known to be populated by Miyaks at the turn of the century.
		The results were disappointing: some villages consisted of just a few remaining houses (many houses lay in ruins), some were entirely Torbesh (Turks); no one knew anything of kaval players or makers.
		If we were looking for Miyak villages, we were told, we must go to the villages of Lazaropole and Gari (Gare), situated on a tributary to the Radika.
	www.wesleyan.edu /eol/4/tammer/tammer6.html (3853 words)

	UN Terror in Kosovo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The victim had been attacked in a newspaper article, written by a former fighter in the KLA.
		In Prizren, a man from the Torbesh minority - a group of Muslim Turks suspected by the Albanians of collaborating with the Serbs - was kidnapped and beaten up by a KPC member and three other men.
		Also in Prizren, the KPC stands accused of using torture to obtain confessions.
	pages.prodigy.net /mvrwc/un-terror-Kosovo.html (694 words)

	Torbesh Did You Mean torbesh? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Torbesh are a Muslim Slav Macedonian peoples.
		Torbesh do not have very firm Macedonian national affiliations, nor a separate, Torbesh identity.
		The last Macedonian census of 2002 confirmed the deep split in the Torbesh community of the Republic of Macedonia, however, members of it declared themselves mainly as the Macedonian Muslims.
	www.did-you-mean.com /Torbesh.html (221 words)

	Rozita Dimova - Curriculum Vitae
		Thesis: Comparison Between the Torbesh Zadruga and the Hungarian Joint Family.
		Thesis: Rituals and Customs Concerning Pregnancy, Child Bearing and Early Childhood Among the Torbesh Group in the Republic of Macedonia.
		April 1994 The Position of Women in the Torbesh Zadruga Conference Women in History - Women's History, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
	www.eth.mpg.de /people/dimova/cv.html (1310 words)

	Human Rights Watch World Report 2001: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: Kosovo - Human Rights Developments
		Roma and especially Serbs continued to bear the brunt of much of the violence.
		Ethnic Croats, Muslim Slavs (including Torbesh), Gorani, and Turks also faced attacks, harassment, and pressure to leave their homes.
		Although far fewer murders and kidnapings took place in 2000 than in 1999, minorities continued to be disproportionately affected.
	hrw.org /wr2k1/europe/yugoslavia-kosovo.html (1252 words)

	albanians dasmas,come & tell your traditions from your a - Page 2 - Albanian Forums
		u aint katundar u just a torbesh :lol:
		Torbesh are Macedonian Muslims and some consider it a derogatory word.
		Interesting sub-group in that most Identify themselves as Macedonian yet most don't have as normalized relationships with their Orthodox bretheren as we Albanians do with each other.
	www.albanian.com /community/vbl/showthread.php?t=6953&page=2 (489 words)

	Human Rights Watch World Report 2001: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: Kosovo - Human Rights Developments
		Roma and especially Serbs continued to bear the brunt of much of the violence.
		Ethnic Croats, Muslim Slavs (including Torbesh), Gorani, and Turks also faced attacks, harassment, and pressure to leave their homes.
		Although far fewer murders and kidnapings took place in 2000 than in 1999, minorities continued to be disproportionately affected.
	www.hrw.org /wr2k1/europe/yugoslavia-kosovo.html (1252 words)

	EOL 4: Kavals article, p 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1998, a Macedonian friend and I visited the villages along the Radica River known to be populated by Miyaks at the turn of the century.
		The results were disappointing: some villages consisted of just a few remaining houses (many houses lay in ruins), some were entirely Torbesh (Turks); no one knew anything of kaval players or makers.
		If we were looking for Miyak villages, we were told, we must go to the villages of Lazaropole and Gari (Gare), situated on a tributary to the Radika.
	research.umbc.edu /efhm/4/tammer/tammer6.html (3853 words)

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		Generally they tend to live in co-existence with the Kosovo Albanian population with whom they share a common religion, however, the fact that they normally speak only Serbo-Croatian or Bosniac can single them out as different and certainly limits their access to the job market.
		One instance of discrimination was noted in education where a shared facility school in Ortakol offered five hours of Albanian classes in the morning followed by only two hours for the Torbesh in the afternoon, in Bosniac.
		The most violent incident was the murder of a Torbesh family of four in their own home in Prizren town in the early hours of January 12th.
	web.tiscali.it /outis-wolit/unhcr.html (21681 words)

	Media Monitoring
		The Turkish media complained that MACEDONIA denied the Turkish origin of a group living within its boundaries: "The Macedonian government denied the Jupa their Turkish origin and deemed them as Muslims of Macedonian origin"; We the Jupa Turks have migrated from Konya during the Ottoman period.
		We do not need designations such as Torbesh (a name used around Macedonia for Macedonian Muslims, Muslim Turks, or Pomaks)".
		There was also one item, related to the first Turkish college to be opened in Skopje which included such a comment: "The Turkish college will reportedly have great contribution on the union and integrity of the Macedonian state."
	www.greekhelsinki.gr /english/media/oct-dec96part2Balkan.html (2545 words)

	Macedonian Muslims (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Macedonian ethnologists, especially Slavic ethnologists, do not considerate the Muslim Slavs a separate ethnic group from the Christian Macedonian Slavs, but instead a religious minority within the Slav ethnic community.
		They are officialy refered to as Macedonian Muslims, but they are sometimes informally and in some cases pejoratively called Torbesh, Gorani, Pomaks etc.
		They should not be confused with the Macedonian Albanians, who are an entirely different ethnic group which is also divided into Muslim and Christian populations.
	www.firebird.cn /wiki/Macedonian_Muslims (174 words)

	Nationality in the Balkans: The case of the Macedonians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Of course, there have been certain clear barriers to assimilation.
		Religion remains one of the most important, as evidenced by the Slav-speaking but Moslem Pomaks and Torbesh, and by all three religious-national communities in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
		Nor is it at all easy to assimilate a population once it has been raised lo the level of independent national consciousness through literacy, education, and the acquisition of its own social and cultural leaders; the Macedonians in the first Yugoslavia are a case in point.
	www.kroraina.com /knigi/en/other/yasamee.html (4096 words)

	Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		On April 3, unknown assailants kidnaped Metodije Halauska, an 86-year-old Czech man, from his home in Pristina, beat him, and shot him in the back of the head.
		On January 12, four members of a family of Torbesh (Muslim Slavs) were shot and killed in their home by an unknown assailant in Prizren.
		On May 24, an Albanian youth shot and wounded a Gorani woman in Pristina, reportedly because she did not speak Albanian.
	www.bannet.org /6-3_yu150301-8.shtml (5412 words)

	Goranci-Gora-Nasagora-Gora slike-Goranska muzika...
		Rijec torbesh (od rijeci "torba") dolazi od "torbesh" bogumila koji su olako prešli na islam.
		Prema mišljenju bugarskog etnografa Vasila Kanchova, Poturice s planine Shar nose ime "Torbesh" - ime koje su im nadjenuli bugarski kršcani i Arnauti (Albanci) kako bi ih ismijavali.
		Prema mišljenju Vasil Kanchov i Jordan Ivanov, "Torbesh" sa planine Shar (Goranci) su bugarska etnija koja govori bugarskim dijalektom.
	users.cjb.net /halili/index.htm (4994 words)

	Traveljournals.net - Torbesh, Macedonia - Location on world map, coordinates and short facts
		Traveljournals.net - Torbesh, Macedonia - Location on world map, coordinates and short facts
		/ Explore / Macedonia / Locations / Torbesh
		Maps and coordinates for Torbesh, Macedonia are approximative and not valid for navigation.
	www.traveljournals.net /explore/macedonia/map/p502998/torbesh.html (68 words)

	Mosque.si
		But since Slovene history is written by kufaar we cannot know for sure.
		Later, islam returned with immigrants from Bosnia (Bosnia) and later Macedonia (Torbesh, Albanian and some Turkish).
		Nowadays, there are about 10 converts and I am the only one from national capitol (entire population cca.
	www.carniola.org /theglory/2004/10/mosquesi.htm (943 words)

	Pomaks - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bulgaria does not recongnize Pomaks as a separate ethnic group but as a religious minority.
		Muslim Slavs in Macedonia are also called Pomaks as well as Torbeshes or Poturs.
		Authorities fear that they may support ethnic Albanian nationalism.
	www.unipedia.info /Pomaks.html (171 words)

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