Bekirlija is a village in

North Macedonia North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo to the northwest and Serbia to the n ...

in the

Lozovo Municipality Lozovo () is a municipality in eastern North Macedonia. '' Lozovo'' is also the name of the village where the municipal seat is found. Lozovo Municipality is part of the Vardar Statistical Region. Geography The municipality borders Sveti Nikole ...

. It is the setting of the Academy Award-nominated documentary film

Honeyland ''Honeyland'' () is a 2019 North Macedonia, Macedonian documentary film that was directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov. It portrays the life of Hatidže Muratova, a lonely beekeeper of wild bees who lives in the remote mountain vil ...

, which depicts it as an abandoned village with no electricity and inhabited by one, and then two families.

Demographics

The Yugoslav census of 1953 recorded 161 people of whom 148 were

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, 71 Macedonians and 12 others. The 1961 Yugoslav census recorded 116 people of whom 77 were

Albanians The Albanians are an ethnic group native to the Balkan Peninsula who share a common Albanian ancestry, Albanian culture, culture, Albanian history, history and Albanian language, language. They are the main ethnic group of Albania and Kosovo, ...

, 6 Turks, 2

Bosniaks The Bosniaks (, Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Бошњаци, ; , ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia (region), Bosnia, today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and who sha ...

, 1 Macedonians and 30 others. The 1971 census recorded 70 people of whom 33 were Albanians, 15 Turks, 8 Bosniaks and 14 others. The 1981 Yugoslav census recorded 25 people, all Turks. The Macedonian census of 1994 recorded 15 people, all Turks. The Macedonian census of 2002 recorded 5 people, all Turks. As of the 2021 census, Bekirlija had a single 1 ethnically Turkish resident.Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
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References

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