Identities of the population of Pirot district

This study represents data on the identities of the population of Pirot district, obtained through interviews with people during the stay in the area, mostly in the period of 2007. and to a lesser extent during 2009. The interviews were conducted for the purposes of the PhD dissertation "Construction of identity of Torlak in Serbia and Bulgaria", presented and defended at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade in 2014. The presented data shed light on the complex and multi-layered identity picture of this area and in connection with its population, reveal the contents of local, regional and national identity names (endonyms and exonyms): Shops, Piroćanci, Belopalančani (or Palančani), Lužničani, Visočani, Bulgarians (or Bugaraši), Serbs (or Srbje).