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)
  Total1,410
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. 1 2 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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