Galicnik, where the people wore black clothes for Skenderbe

Today's Western Macedonia has been the theatre of frequent fighting between Skenderbeu rebels and the Ottoman border armies coming from Skopje.

Skenderbee's leading Haggigrapher, Marin Barlett, constantly mentions the geographical concept of two Debratı, writes Conica.al.

According to Kasem Bichok's studies, the term in question should not be confused with the modern administrative concept of Debar.

He maintains the view that Down Below Debar included Pollog until Skopje, as the Upper One went to the vicinity of the monastery.

The Galicnik region, or Down Below Reca, is an ethnographic treasure, still enigmatic to researchers.

The researcher from Tetovo, Nijazi Muhamed, has brought some interesting information from Toma Smiljanic's notes (1888-1969).

In his book on the Galicnik of Reca, he designs out that a tradition of local residents over Skenderbeun.

During an anti-Turkish uprising, they had raised the Kosovo flag,

According to Smiljanic, Orthodox residents of Galicnik and Reka since 1448, part of their white appearance has been turned black as a sign of mourning over Skenderbe's death.