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Galicnik is a mountain village
Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or Residential community, larger than a hamlet , but smaller than a town or city. Though generally located in rural areas, the term urban village may be applied to certain urban area neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in Beirut, Lebanon....
 in the Republic of Macedonia
Republic of Macedonia

The Republic of Macedonia , , often referred to simply as Macedonia, is a landlocked country on the Balkans in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Serbia to the north, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south and Albania to the west....
. It is located on the slope
Slope

Slope is used to describe the steepness, incline, gradient, or grade of a line . A higher slope value indicates a steeper incline. The slope is defined as the ratio of the "rise" divided by the "run" between two points on a line, or in other words, the ratio of the altitude change to the horizontal distance between any two point...
s of the Bistra Mountain, in the heart of the region of the Mijaci tribe (Miákoi, a Greek subgroup later resettled in Krushevo) , about 10 km from the artificial lake of Mavrovo
Mavrovo

Mavrovo is a region in the northwest of the Republic of Macedonia. It is home to Mavrovo National Park and a winter sports center. Some of the villages and smaller hamlets include: Mavrovo , Nikiforovo, Leunovo, and Mavrovi Anovi....
 and the winter resort of Zare Lazareski. It is famous for the "Galicka Svadba
Galichnik Wedding Festival

The Galichnik Wedding Festival is an annual Macedonians festival held in the Macedonian village of Galicnik near the city of Debar in which a selected couple gets married in the traditional "Galichka" style wedding....
", a traditional and public summer wedding, held annually on the day of the village feast of the Patron Saint
Patron saint

A patron saint is a saint who is regarded as the intercessor and advocate in heaven of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, or person. Patron saints, because they have already transcended to the metaphysical, are able to intercede effectively for the needs of their special charges....
 – Petrovden (St.






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Galicnik is a mountain village
Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or Residential community, larger than a hamlet , but smaller than a town or city. Though generally located in rural areas, the term urban village may be applied to certain urban area neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in Beirut, Lebanon....
 in the Republic of Macedonia
Republic of Macedonia

The Republic of Macedonia , , often referred to simply as Macedonia, is a landlocked country on the Balkans in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Serbia to the north, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south and Albania to the west....
. It is located on the slope
Slope

Slope is used to describe the steepness, incline, gradient, or grade of a line . A higher slope value indicates a steeper incline. The slope is defined as the ratio of the "rise" divided by the "run" between two points on a line, or in other words, the ratio of the altitude change to the horizontal distance between any two point...
s of the Bistra Mountain, in the heart of the region of the Mijaci tribe (Miákoi, a Greek subgroup later resettled in Krushevo) , about 10 km from the artificial lake of Mavrovo
Mavrovo

Mavrovo is a region in the northwest of the Republic of Macedonia. It is home to Mavrovo National Park and a winter sports center. Some of the villages and smaller hamlets include: Mavrovo , Nikiforovo, Leunovo, and Mavrovi Anovi....
 and the winter resort of Zare Lazareski. It is famous for the "Galicka Svadba
Galichnik Wedding Festival

The Galichnik Wedding Festival is an annual Macedonians festival held in the Macedonian village of Galicnik near the city of Debar in which a selected couple gets married in the traditional "Galichka" style wedding....
", a traditional and public summer wedding, held annually on the day of the village feast of the Patron Saint
Patron saint

A patron saint is a saint who is regarded as the intercessor and advocate in heaven of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, or person. Patron saints, because they have already transcended to the metaphysical, are able to intercede effectively for the needs of their special charges....
 – Petrovden (St. Peter's day). During the wedding, local men will dance the "Teškoto" (the "hard" or "heavy") - a dance that is meant to symbolize the overcoming of difficulties in life.

In the past, the economy of Galicnik relied on the sheep
Sheep

#REDIRECT Domestic sheep...
 trade
Trade

Tradeis the willing exchange of goods, Service , or both. Trade is also called commerce. A mechanism that allows trade is called a market. The original form of trade was barter , the direct exchange of goods and services....
, while many families sent the men on a "pecalba" - abroad to work and bring home some fortune. Today, Galicnik is but only a destination of tourism
Tourism

Tourism is travel for recreational or leisure purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from...
 and leisure
Leisure

Leisure or free time, is a period of time spent out of employment and essential domestic activity. It is also the period of recreational and discretionary time before or after compulsory activities such as eating and sleeping, employment or running a business, education and doing homework, household chores, and day-to-day Stress ....
 for the long departed locals, many of whom return to renovate and restore old family houses and use them as a holiday refuge away from the summer heat in the capital Skopje
Skopje

Skopje is the Capital of and List of cities in the Republic of Macedonia by population in the Republic of Macedonia, with more than a quarter of the population of the country, as well as its political, cultural, economic, and academic centre....
.

People from Galicnik and northwestern Macedonia appreciate its mature yellow cheese "kaškaval
Kaškaval

Kashkaval is a specific type of yellow sheep milk cheese; however, in Bulgaria, Republic of Macedonia and Serbia, the term is often used to refer to all yellow cheeses In English-language menus in Bulgaria, "????????" is always translated as "yellow cheese" ...
" as well as the local salt brine white cheese "belo sirenje". Galicnik is also famous for its local traditional architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
, including an amphitheatre in the village square, its summer Galicnik Art Colony and its countryside and nature reserve.

Notable people from Galicnik

  • Aleksandar Sarievski
    Aleksandar Sarievski

    Aleksandar Sarievski was an iconic singer-songwriter from the Republic of Macedonia whose career spanned almost six decades. He was one of the most recognizable figures in Ethnic Macedonian music....
     (1922 - 2002) - Macedonian songwriter
  • George Pulevski (1838 - 1895) - Revolutionary
  • Partenie Zografski (1818 - 1876)
  • Velimir Ginovski (b. 1915)
  • Vladimir Ginovski (b. 1927)
  • Vasil Grivchev (1922-1996)


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