Krakornica (
Kurakornica) is recorded in the
Ottoman defter of 1467 as a village in the
ziamet of
Reka. The settlement had a total of three households represented by household heads all bearing
Albanian anthroponymy. In 1519, the village counted 12 Christian married families and 1 bachelor. In the 1583 census, the village of Kakornica counted 1 Muslim and 20 Christian families respectively, and 1 bachelor. One mill was working and the
timar was paid 1113
akçe annually. The Christian anthroponyms recorded were Albanian and mixed Slavic-Albanian in character.: (e.g.
Mahmut Abdulla, Pal Petko, Lin Janica, Laç Tode, Petri Stojan, Leko Miho, Gjon Miho, Lado Pejçin). According to ''Ethnographie des Vilayets D'Andrinople, de Monastir, et de Salonique'', published in Constantinople in 1878, the village had a total of 80, households with 83 Muslim Albanian and 120 Orthodox Albanian inhabitants. In statistics gathered by
Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Krakornica was inhabited by 180 Christian Albanians and 180 Muslim Albanians. In 1905 in statistics gathered by Dimitar Mishev Brancoff, Krakornica was inhabited by 210 Albanians and had a Bulgarian school. Christian Albanians were attracted by Serbian propaganda and according to the statistics of the newspaper " Debarski Glas " in 1911 there were 64 Albanian
Patriarchist houses in Krakornica. Due to the
Balkan Wars, Muslim residents of Krakornica abandoned the village. According to a 1929 ethnographic map by Russian Slavist
Afanasy Selishchev, Krakornica was an Albanian village. == Demographics ==