title: Blace, Čučer-Sandevo
text: # Blace, Čučer-Sandevo
  
  Blace (Macedonian: Блаце, Albanian: Bllacë) is a village in the municipality of Čučer-Sandevo, Republic of North Macedonia.
  
  ## History
  
  On the 1st of November 1944, the village was the scene of a massacre in which a total of 120 Albanians were killed by the XVI Macedonian Partisan Brigade, led by Gligorije Šaranović-"Gliša", under the pretext of collaboration with the occupier.
  
  During the Kosovo War, Blace temporarily hosted around 65,000 ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo.
  
  ## Demographics
  
  As of the 2021 census, Blace had 862 residents with the following ethnic composition:
  
  * Albanians 760
  * Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 102
  
  According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 972 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:
  
  * Albanians 968
  * Macedonians 1
  * Others 3
  