Draslajca

Draslajca (Macedonian: Драслајца) is a village in the south-western region of North Macedonia.

It has 3 general stores, a granary, an agency from the Government of North Macedonia and the "Makedonski Dom" in the Sredselo (centre of the village).

The first mention of Draslajce in literature is in a Turkisk census document of the Ohrid Sanjak in 1543.

In Ethnographie des Vilayets d'Adrianople, de Monastir et de Salonique the French newspaper Le Courrier d'Orient had the village listed as having 40 households and a male population of 112 people, all Bulgarian.

[3] Name Draslajca: the elder people say it comes from Dras that means wild grass and Lajca is old word for scythe.

After World War Two the remaining Macedonians in Livada began to leave the village and settle in Draslajca.