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The Upper Reka region is the only area within Macedonia to have a cold Alpine climate.
Intensive conversion to Islam occurred in Upper Reka from the late 18th century, and continued until the mid 19th century.
It contains information about culture, customs, language andother facets of life of Upper Reka during the late Ottoman period.
Various Muslim and Orthodox Upper Reka inhabitants still retain memories of family ties and distant common ancestors.
The work has been praised by Elsie and other scholars like Andrea Pieroni for its detailed andimportant information of Upper Reka.
Albanian philologist Edibe Selimi-Osmani who did fieldwork in Upper Reka during the 1990s and 2000s regarded the population as being of Albanian origin.
In the early 2010s, scholar Andrea Pieroni and a team of researchers from various national backgrounds did fieldwork anda comparative study of past and present Upper Reka botanical terminology.
Historian Dimitar Bechev regards the Christian populace of Upper Reka as Orthodox Albanian speakers, whereas historian Noel Malcolm considers them to be Orthodox Albanians.
Upper Reka's northern and northeastern territorial borders consist of the Vraca Mountains which are part of the wider Šar Mountains that extend nearby as the Ničpur Mountains with Lera peak at 2194 m.
Historian Nick Atanasovski, who did fieldwork in Lower Reka contends that the sub-regions of Small,Lower and Upper Reka were subjected to Islamisation, though not colonisation.
The first attested example of Albanian literature being present in Upper Reka is a 19th-century Albanian language gospel text(New Testament) written in the Greek alphabet held in a church in the village of Duf.
Galaba Palikruševa, examining medieval Ottoman tax registers or defters of the region in the1970s regarding personal names, stated that there was a prominent non-Slavic element in Upper Reka of Albanian and/or Vlach origin.
A cultural association named Josif Bageri has also been established by some prominent Upper Reka members from both Muslim and Christian backgrounds aiming at socio-cultural, historical and linguistic preservation of Upper Reka heritage.
Upper Reka alongside the wider Reka region was also considered(and from an Albanian point of view still considered) to belong to the larger region of Dibra that encompasses multiple sub-regions centered around the town of Debar on both sides of the Albanian-Macedonian border.
Due to difficult living circumstances and at times sociopolitical disturbances,especially in the 19th century, Upper Reka has historically been a region with much outward temporary and permanent migration.
Due to the legacy of seasonal migration for work,trade and emigration, Upper Reka people have become multilingual over time in various languages including Turkish, Greek, Serbian, Bulgarian, Romanian, French and English.
A small Catholic population was also present that stemmed from some Catholic Albanians who migrated to Upper Reka from nearby areas located in contemporary Albania and later became assimilated.
While anthropologist Mirjana Mirčevska who did field work in Upper Reka during the 2000s, stated that both the Muslim and Orthodox population was mainly of Macedonian Slavic origin, with possible Albanian elements in their ethnogenesis.
Linguist Qemal Murati, referring to both the Muslim andOrthodox population as Albanians argued that scholars who suggested the Upper Reka population are Albanianized Slavs have done so due to nationalist reasons so as to deny the historical Albanian element in the region.
For example, a few prominent individuals like Branko Manoilovski from the Upper Reka Christian Orthodox community have publicly declared an Albanian identity or origin, while others such as Branislav Sinadinovski have called for an Albanian Orthodox Church to be present within the region.
In the late 1890s Štilijan Čaparoski and folklorist Panajot Ginoski, both from Galičnik, Dolna Reka, maintained that Upper Reka inhabitants spoke a corrupted form of Albanian that was understood only by the locals, and contained a mixture of Slavic and Albanians words.