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Shkupi was mostly a town inhabited by Muslim Albanians . Many Albanians in Macedonia were also genocided by invading Serbs.

Macedonians also settled modern Albania and Kosove and there have been intermarriages. The native Albanian population in Macedonia wasn't neccessarily ''small'' but consisted of at least the western part and northern part and even other areas . Town names like Shkup, Ohrid, Shtip follow Albanian...

Zhur were Albanians who bore a mixture of Slavic, Christian and Albanian names . I will do for the same territory for the registers of 1500's . For that period other type of names became more in use including Muslim names . I will also cover other areas.

I marked a bit wrong for the last part, but typical Albanian names for these periods are basically names like Gjon, Gjin, Marin, Bardo, Bardhe, Zot, Progon, Gjergj, Tanush, Marshen, Ukqa, Pavli, Pepa, Pal, Kola, Leka etc along side with other Christian names and Slavic names

Modern Smolice https://mapcarta.com/N3474107857 Bozhko, son of Bogdan Boshko, his brother Petro, son of Dimitri Gjorgj, son of Stanisha Gjorgj, son of Ivan Pepa, son of Gjin Pavli, son of Petri Petri, son of Leka Nenko, son of Nikolla Dimitri, son of Milosh Andrija, son of Gjorgj Andrija, son...

Part of the Ottoman register from 1452 and 1480 that covered the area of Gjakova-Junik-Has region in Kosovo. This territory was inhabited by a Christian Albanian population. I have marked the more typical Albanian names. I only added villages that have been identified or that still exist Lunik...

While I agree, the shift towards each other is also obviously from both sides