Zdunje

Zdunje
Здуње
Zdunjë
Zdunye
Village
Zdunje is located in North Macedonia
Zdunje
Zdunje
Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 41°47′39″N 20°52′32″E / 41.79417°N 20.87556°E / 41.79417; 20.87556
Country North Macedonia
Region Polog
Municipality Gostivar
Population
 (2021)
 • Total
1,410
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Car platesGV
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Zdunje (Macedonian: Здуње, Albanian: Zdunjë, Turkish: Zdunye) is a village in the municipality of Gostivar, North Macedonia.

History

The village is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kırçova. The village had a total of 20 houses, excluding bachelors (mucerred).[1]

According to the 1467-68 Ottoman defter, Zdunje appears as having largely Christian Albanian anthroponomy. Due to Slavicisation, some families had a mixed Slav-Albanian anthroponomy - usually a Slavic first name and an Albanian last name or last names with Albanian patronyms and Slavic suffixes.[2]

In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village was inhabited by 300 Turks, 120 Muslim Albanians, and 65 Bulgarian Exarchists.[3] According to Geographers Dimitri Mishev and D. M. Brancoff, in 1905 the town 64 Bulgarian Exarchists.[4]

Demographics

As of the 2021 census, Zdunje had 1,140 residents with the following ethnic composition:[5]

  • Albanians 730
  • Turks 532
  • Macedonians 77
  • Persons from whom data are taken from administrative sources 70
  • Others 1

According to the 2002 census, the village is multiethnical with a total of 2140 inhabitants.[6] Ethnic groups in the village include:[6]

References

  1. ^ Qerim Dalipi. "NAHIJA E KËRÇOVËS SIPAS REGJISTRIMIT TË VITEVE 1467-1468 (Aspekte shoqërore)". Gjurmime Albanologjike - Seria e shkencave historike 47:29-48.
  2. ^ Rexha, Iljaz (2011). "Vendbanimet dhe popullsia albane gjatë mesjetës në hapësirën e Maqedonisë së sotme: Sipas burimeve sllave dhe osmane". Gjurmime Albanologjike: Seria e Shkencave Historike (41–42): 115. The names are: Gjorgji Arbanas; Mill, son of Doksa; Daba, of his brother; Mano Arbanas (t. Arnaut); Ggjin Protogjer.
  3. ^ Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 213.
  4. ^ Dimitri Mishev and D. M. Brancoff, La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne, p. 194
  5. ^ Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
  6. ^ a b Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 86.
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