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Kičevo Municipality
Kičevo Municipality ( mk, Кичево; sq, Kërçovë) is a municipality in the western part of North Macedonia. The municipal seat is the city of Kičevo. Kičevo Municipality is located in the Southwestern Statistical Region. Geography The municipality borders Mavrovo and Rostuša Municipality to the northwest, Debar Municipality to the west, Gostivar Municipality to the north, Makedonski Brod and Plasnica municipalities to the east, Demir Hisar Municipality to the south, and Debarca Municipality to the southwest. Demographics According to the last national census from 2002 the municipality, prior to territorial adjustments in 2013, had 30,138 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the municipality included: *Macedonians = 16,140 (53.6%) *Albanians = 9,202 (30.5%) *Turks = 2,430 (8.1%) *Roma = 1,630 (5.4%) *others. Following the territorial adjustments in March 2013, the municipalities of Drugovo, Vraneštica Vraneštica ( mk, ) is a village in the municipality of Kičevo, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demir Hisar Municipality
Demir Hisar ( mk, Демир Хисар ) is a municipality in the southwestern part of North Macedonia. '' Demir Hisar'', which means "iron fortress" in Turkish, is also the name of the town where the municipal seat is found. Demir Hisar municipality is part of the Pelagonia Statistical Region. Geography The municipality borders Kičevo Municipality to the north, Kruševo Municipality and Mogila Municipality to the east, Bitola Municipality to the south, and Resen Municipality, Ohrid Municipality, and Debarca Municipality Debarca ( mk, ) is a municipality in the Southwestern Statistical Region of North Macedonia. The village of Belčišta is the municipal seat. It is the municipality in which Ohrid "St. Paul the Apostle" Airport is located, the second of two in ... to the west. Demographics According to the last national census from 2021 this municipality has 7,260 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the municipality include: References External linksOfficial website ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Albania Earthquake
Northwestern Albania was struck by a magnitude 6.4 earthquake with an epicentre 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) west-southwest of Mamurras, at 03:54 CET (UTC+1) on 26 November 2019. The earthquake lasted at least 50 seconds and was felt in Albania's capital Tirana, and in places as far away as Bari, Taranto and Belgrade, 370 kilometres (230 mi) northeast of the epicentre. The maximum felt intensity was VIII (''Severe'') on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale. A total of 51 people were killed in the earthquake, with about 3,000 injured. It was the second earthquake to strike the region in the space of three months. It was the strongest earthquake to hit Albania in more than 40 years, its deadliest earthquake in 99 years and the world's deadliest earthquake in 2019. Tectonic setting Albania lies across the convergent boundary between the Eurasian Plate and the Adriatic Plate, part of the complex collision zone with the African Plate. The structure of the western part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romani People
The Romani (also spelled Romany or Rromani , ), colloquially known as the Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally nomadic itinerants. They live in Europe and Anatolia, and have diaspora populations located worldwide, with significant concentrations in the Americas. In the English language, the Romani people are widely known by the exonym Gypsies (or Gipsies), which is considered pejorative by many Romani people due to its connotations of illegality and irregularity as well as its historical use as a racial slur. For versions (some of which are cognates) of the word in many other languages (e.g., , , it, zingaro, , and ) this perception is either very small or non-existent. At the first World Romani Congress in 1971, its attendees unanimously voted to reject the use of all exonyms for the Romani people, including ''Gypsy'', due to their aforementioned negative and stereotypical connotations. Linguistic and genetic evidence suggests that the Roma origina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish People
The Turkish people, or simply the Turks ( tr, Türkler), are the world's largest Turkic ethnic group; they speak various dialects of the Turkish language and form a majority in Turkey and Northern Cyprus. In addition, centuries-old ethnic Turkish communities still live across other former territories of the Ottoman Empire. Article 66 of the Turkish Constitution defines a "Turk" as: "Anyone who is bound to the Turkish state through the bond of citizenship." While the legal use of the term "Turkish" as it pertains to a citizen of Turkey is different from the term's ethnic definition, the majority of the Turkish population (an estimated 70 to 75 percent) are of Turkish ethnicity. The vast majority of Turks are Muslims and follow the Sunni and Alevi faith. The ethnic Turks can therefore be distinguished by a number of cultural and regional variants, but do not function as separate ethnic groups. In particular, the culture of the Anatolian Turks in Asia Minor has underlied and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macedonians (ethnic Group)
Macedonians ( mk, Македонци, Makedonci) are a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group native to the region of Macedonia in Southeast Europe. They speak Macedonian, a South Slavic language. The large majority of Macedonians identify as Eastern Orthodox Christians, who speak a South Slavic language, and share a cultural and historical "Orthodox Byzantine–Slavic heritage" with their neighbours. About two-thirds of all ethnic Macedonians live in North Macedonia and there are also communities in a number of other countries. The concept of a Macedonian ethnicity, distinct from their Orthodox Balkan neighbours, is seen to be a comparatively newly emergent one. The earliest manifestations of an incipient Macedonian identity emerged during the second half of the 19th century among limited circles of Slavic-speaking intellectuals, predominantly outside the region of Macedonia. They arose after the First World War and especially during 1930s, and thus were consolidated by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albanians
The Albanians (; sq, Shqiptarët ) are an ethnic group An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common sets of traditions, ancestry, language, history, ... and nation native to the Balkan Peninsula who share a common Albanian Cultural heritage, ancestry, Albanian culture, culture, Albanian history, history and Albanian language, language. They primarily live in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia as well as in Croatia, Greece, Italy and Turkey. They also constitute a large diaspora with several communities established across Europe, the Americas and Oceania. Albanians have Paleo-Balkan languages, Paleo-Balkanic Origin of the Albanians, origins. Exclusively attributing these origins to the Illyrians, Thracians or other Paleo-Balkan people is still a matter of debate among historians and ethnologists. The firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oslomej Municipality
Oslomej ( mk, , sq, Osllomej) is a former municipality in western Republic of North Macedonia, created in 1996 territorial organisation and dissolved following the 2013 Macedonian new territorial organisation, after it was merged with Kičevo Municipality. *'' Oslomej'' is also the name of the village where the municipal seat was found. **Oslomej Municipality was part of the Southwestern Statistical Region. Geography The municipality bordered * Makedonski Brod Municipality to the east, * Vraneštica Municipality to the south, * Kičevo Municipality to the southwest, * Zajas Municipality to the west, and * Gostivar Municipality Gostivar ( mk, Гостивар ; sq, Komuna e Gostivarit) is a municipality in the western part of North Macedonia. * ''Gostivar'' is also the name of the town where the municipal seat is found. ** Gostivar Municipality is part of the Polog St ... to the north. Demographics According to the last national census from 2002, this municipality has 10,4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zajas Municipality
Zajas ( mk, , sq, Zajaz) is a former municipality in western North Macedonia, created in the 1996 territorial organisation, dissolved following 2013 Macedonian new territorial organisation after it was merged with Kičevo Municipality. * ''Zajas'' is also the name of the village where the municipal seat was found. ** Zajas Municipality was part of the Southwestern Statistical Region. Geography The municipality bordered *Mavrovo and Rostuša Municipality to the west, * Gostivar Municipality to the northeast, *Oslomej Municipality to the east, * Kičevo Municipality to the southeast, and *Drugovo Municipality Drugovo ( mk, ) is a former municipality in western North Macedonia, created in the 1996 territorial organisation and dissolved following the 2013 Macedonian new territorial organisation, after it was merged with Kičevo Municipality. * '' Drugo ... to the southwest. Demographics According to the last national census from 2002, this municipality has 11,605 inhabitants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vraneštica Municipality
Vraneštica ( mk, ) is a former municipality in western North Macedonia, created in the 1996 territorial organisation and dissolved following the 2013 Macedonian new territorial organisation, after it was merged with Kičevo Municipality. ''Vraneštica Vraneštica ( mk, ) is a village in the municipality of Kičevo, North Macedonia. It was the seat of the now-defunct Vraneštica Municipality. Demographics The village is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of K ...'' is also the name of the village where the municipal seat was found. This municipality was part of the Southwestern Statistical Region. The last mayor of the municipality was Vančo Srbakovski. Demographics According to the last national census from 2002, this municipality has 1,322 inhabitants. in English and Macedonian (PDF) Et ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drugovo Municipality
Drugovo ( mk, ) is a former municipality in western North Macedonia, created in the 1996 territorial organisation and dissolved following the 2013 Macedonian new territorial organisation, after it was merged with Kičevo Municipality. * ''Drugovo'' is also the name of the village where the municipal seat was found. ** Drugovo Municipality was part of the Southwestern Statistical Region. *** The last mayor of the municipality was Dobre Nikoski. Geography The municipality bordered *Debar Municipality to the west, *Mavrovo and Rostuša Municipality to the northwest, *Zajas Municipality to the northeast, * Kičevo Municipality, Vraneštica Municipality, Plasnica Municipality, and Kruševo Municipality to the east, *Demir Hisar Municipality to the southeast, and *Debarca Municipality to the southwest. Demographics According to the last national census from 2002, Drugovo Municipality has 3,249 inhabitants. *Ethnic groups in the municipality include: **Macedonians = 2,784 (85.7%) **Tur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debarca Municipality
Debarca ( mk, ) is a municipality in the Southwestern Statistical Region of North Macedonia. The village of Belčišta is the municipal seat. It is the municipality in which Ohrid "St. Paul the Apostle" Airport is located, the second of two international airports in the county. Geography The municipality borders Kičevo Municipality to the northeast, Demir Hisar Municipality to the east, Ohrid Municipality to the south, and Struga Municipality Municipality of Struga ( mk, Струга, translit=Struga, sq, Strugë) is a municipality in western North Macedonia. ''Struga'' is also the name of the town where the municipal seat is found. Struga Municipality is part of the Southwestern Sta ... to the west. The municipality encompasses the Debarca Valley, part of the Sateska River watershed that flows into Lake Ohrid and belongs to the Lake Ohrid Drainage Basin. The majority of the villages are nestled between the Karaorman Mountain in the west and Ilinska Mountain in the east. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
