[4] The wider Maqellarë municipality, however, includes a number of predominantly Albanian towns that were not listed in Kanchov's study as they were not part of the Debar kaza.

[4] The Halveti Order had one structure in the modern commune, in the mixed Albanian Muslim and Bulgarian Christian town of Grezhdan.

[7] Of the area corresponding to the contemporary administrative unit of Maqellarë, settlements had the following ethnic and religious demographics:[7] Linguists Klaus Steinke and Xhelal Ylli consider the overall census results to be accurate and reflective of much of the ethnic and religious demographics of the area during that time,[7] however noting that the then identity of the Orthodox Slavic speaking populace was fluid as reflected in census declarations.

[9] Use of the Macedonian language in Kërçisht i Epërm is limited and facing extinction, due to usage being confined to the family.

[8] Linguists Steinke and Ylli also noted that unlike the Gollobordë region, the villages of the Maqellarë administrative unit area do not have any Muslim Slavic speaking inhabitants, and the village of Katund i Vogël (Obok) no longer has any Slavic Christians left and is inhabited only by Albanians.