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Zdunje
Village in Polog, North Macedonia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Zdunje (Macedonian: Здуње, Albanian: Zdunjë, Turkish: Zdunye) is a village in the municipality of Gostivar, North Macedonia.
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History
Zdunje is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 20 Christian households, 1 widow and 1 bachelor.[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 geographer Dimitri Mishev (D. M. Brancoff), in 1905, the town 64 Bulgarian Exarchists.[4]
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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]
- Albanians 998
- Turks 659
- Macedonians 467
- Romani 9
- Serbs 1
- Others 9
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References
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