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Shops say "there wasn't a single mosque in Shopluk", but there obviously were some. But when Šopluk was liberated from the Ottomans in 1815 all muslims had to leave, while Raška and Kosovo were liberated 100 years after that, and muslims were allowed to stay.
Shops and Torlaks together in red, map of central Serbia only:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped.../S._Srbija.pdf
just the Torlaks:
Torlak dialects is a wider term, used by some linguists, it includes people which are neither Shops of Torlaks. That's the map Pribislav posted.
Because the word "Torlak" was one of the derogatiory terms for all Southeast Serbs: Shops, Torlaks, Morava-Vardar Serbs, south Kosovo Serbs, maybe some other groups too.
Torlak identity is much weaker than Shop, and their borders are very loosely defined. However there are stil annual Torlak festivals where Serbs and Bulgarians roughly from that area on the second map gather.
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