Shopi is a regional term referring to people that speak a transitional dialect group of South Slavic, self-identifying as Bulgarians, Macedonians and Serbs. The areas traditionally inhabited by the Shopi is called Shopluk (Шоплук, Shopluk/srb. Šopluk), a mesoregion, roughly where Bulgaria, Serbia and Macedonia meet. The population has been given an ethnographic character by Serbian and Bulgarian scholars.

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