page_title: Shopi
section_title: Shopluk area
hierarchical_section_title: Shopi / Shopluk area
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of Shopluk / Šopluk region in Bulgaria, Macedonia and Serbia (according to Jovan Cvijić).Serbian: Мапа региона Шоплук у Бугарској, Македонији и Србији (према Јовану Цвијићу).
context_page_description: Shopi or Šopi is a regional term, used by a group of people in the Balkans, self-identifying as Bulgarians, Macedonians and Serbs. The areas traditionally inhabited by the Shopi or Šopi is called Shopluk or Šopluk, a mesoregion, roughly where Bulgaria, Serbia and North Macedonia meet. In 2011 census in Serbia they are registered as separate ethnicity and 142 persons declared themselves as belonging to this ethnicity.
context_section_description: Southeastern Serbia
  Krajište region
  Vlasina region
  Western Bulgaria  (White Shopluk )
  Sofia City Province (villages around Sofia, capital of Bulgaria)
  Sofia Province (part of the Small Shopluk)
  Vidin Province
  Vratsa Province
  Montana Province
  Pernik Province (part of the Small Shopluk)
  Kyustendil Province (part of the Small Shopluk)
  occasionally also Blagoevgrad Province as Black Shopluk
  Northeastern North Macedonia
  Northeastern statistical region
  Eastern statistical region
caption: Shopluk as per Serbian geographer Jovan Cvijić.
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