Vernik

Vernik Врбник
Village
Vernik
Coordinates: 40°38′40″N 21°01′26″E / 40.64444°N 21.02389°ECoordinates: 40°38′40″N 21°01′26″E / 40.64444°N 21.02389°E
Country	Albania
County	Korçë
Municipality	Devoll
Administrative Unit	Qendër Bilisht
Population (2005)
• Total	280
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)

Vernik (definite Albanian form: Verniku, Macedonian: Врбник, Vrbnik) is a village in the former Qendër Bilisht Municipality of the Korçë County in Albania, on the border with Krystallopigi in Greece. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Devoll.^[1] It is situated south of the Small Prespa Lake.

History

Verniku during World War I

In 1873, then under the Ottoman Empire, the village was listed twice in a demographic survey, once as a Verlink, containing 86 households and 220 male Orthodox Christians, and again as Vrbnik, containing 70 households and 205 male Muslims.^[2] According to another late 19th century estimate by Vasil Kanchov, the village had 600 Bulgarian Christians.^[3]

In 1903, during the Ilinden Uprising, all 80 of the village's houses were burnt down.^[4]

At the outbreak of the First Balkan War, Vernik sent six volunteers to join the Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Volunteer Corps.^[5]

During World War I, the village was part of Greece. In the 1913 and 1920 censuses, it had 489 and 366 residents, respectively.^[6]

Demographics

The Kostur dialect of the Macedonian language is spoken in the village.^[7]

People from Vernik

• Nikolaos Dailakis, Greek revolutionary
• Nako Grozdanov (1886 - 1969), member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization^[8]
• Boncho Nestorov (1906 - 1987), writer and journalist^[9]
• Nikola Pandovski, member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization^[10]
• Kristo Temelko, communist politician^[11]

References

1. Law nr. 115/2014
2. „Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 г.“ Македонски научен институт, София, 1995, стр.106-107 и 110-111.
3. Васил Кънчов. „Македония. Етнография и статистика“. София, 1900.
4. Kitanoski, Mišo; Donevski, Gjorgi (2003). Ilindenskoto vostanie vo Egejska Makedonija.
5. „Македоно-одринското опълчение 1912-1913 г. Личен състав“, Главно управление на архивите, 2006, стр.836.
6. Mapping Migration in Kastoria, Macedonia. Verniki.
7. According to some dialectologists the dialect of Vrabnik is a part from Kostur dialect only in general terms - see Христова, Евдокия. Българска реч от Албания. Говорът на село Връбник, Университетско издателство “Неофит Рилски”, Благоевград 2003, с. 10 [Hristova, Evdokia. Bulgarian speech from Albania. The dialect of the village Vrabnik, University Press "Neophyte Rilski", Blagoevgrad 2003, p. 10.] (in Bulgarian)
8. Nikolov, Boris Y. Вътрешна македоно-одринска революционна организация. Войводи и ръководители (1893-1934). Биографично-библиографски справочник, Софи, 2001, стр. 36.
9. Nestorov. Poslednata godina.
10. Ognjanov, Mihail. Македония - преживяна съдба, ИК Гутенберг, София, 2002, стр.142, 143, 146, 151, 155.
11. "Stenogram of the Meeting between J. V. Stalin and E. Hoxha Regarding Albanian-Yugoslav Relations, and the External and Internal Politics of Albania". Retrieved 7 June 2014.