Šum
Šum (, ) is a village in the municipality of Struga, North Macedonia. The settlement is a newer village in the Struga area and has a mosque. Name Šum has in its history been attached administratively to the neighboring village of Zagračani resulting in demographic and other data being counted along with that settlement. Past traces of the village name Šum are non-existent and the area only appears in an old map by Jaranov listing it as Dolno (Lower) Zagračani. Due to the close geographical proximity with Zagračani, the village toponyms of Šum are shared with its neighbour. A river flows through the village. Local Albanian residents of Šum derive the origin of their village's name as stemming from the Albanian word shumë (meaning: a lot, much) from there being a lot of water due to the river. Šum is also located nearby Struga and in between there are remnants of a forest. In Macedonian the word for 'forest' is шума/šuma. The Albanian expression pronounced as shumë is according to Pianka Włodzimierz borrowed in this instance possibly from a local field name from a time when Zagračani was a Macedonian village, becoming the name of the village. Demographics The Tosk