Shopi

Article

29 sections

Contents

Name
Shopluk area
Classification
European travellers and ethnographers before 1878
Modern ethnographic accounts
The Serbian claim
Present-day situation
Dialects
Features of Shopski shared by all or most western Bulgarian dialects
Phonology
Morphology
Features characteristic for the South-West Bulgarian dialect group
Phonology
Morphology
Features characteristic of the Sofia and Elin Pelin dialects
Morphology
Other features
Vocabulary
Culture
Artistic culture
Cuisine
Social
The Shopi in literature and anecdotes
Anecdotes and proverbs
Honours
See also
References
Sources
External links

thumb|200px|A Shop of Tran, Bulgaria, 1921

Shopi or Šopi (South Slavic: Шопи) is a regional term, used by a group of people in the Balkans. The areas traditionally inhabited by the Shopi or Šopi is called Shopluk or Šopluk (Шоплук), a mesoregion. Most of the region is located in Western Bulgaria, with smaller parts in Eastern Serbia and Eastern North Macedonia, where the borders of the three countries meet.