Elovo () is a village in the

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Studeničani Studeničani (; ) is a village in North Macedonia. It is a seat of Studeničani municipality. Demographics According to the 2021 census, the village had a total of 8.004 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:Macedonian Census (2021) '' ...

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 ...

. The village is Torbeš,because of socially-economic factor they declare themselves as Turks

History

The village is mentioned in historical records since the 13th century CE. The inhabitants of the village appear to have been in conflict with

protosebastos The title of ''protosebastos'' (, ''prōtosébastos'', "first '' sebastos''") was a high Byzantine court title created by Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. History Although the title first appears in a document of 1049, where Domenico I Contarini, the ...

Pribo Vlastelin, who was a Bulgarian feudal landowner in the area between Skopje and Veles. The villagers who seem to have been in relations of feudal servitude with Vlastelin came into open conflict with him and their parish priest Dragomir. During the conflict the Metropolitan of Skopje Jovan, removed Dragomir from Elovo and later defrocked him. During the great migration movements in Macedonia at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, Slavic-speaking Muslims left the Debar area for the central regions of Macedonia and settled in villages such as Elovo located in the Skopje area. On the 1927 ethnic map of Leonhard Schulze-Jena, the village is written as "Elova" and shown as a

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village. According to the 1929 ethnographic map by Russian Slavist

Afanasy Selishchev Afanasy (, ) is the Slavic form of Athanasios, a Greek name meaning "immortal". It may refer to: People: * Afanasy Bagration, Prince Adarnase of Kartli (1707–1784), Georgian prince royal and Russian Empire general * Afanasy Beloborodov (1903–1 ...

, Elovo was an

village.

Demographics

In the second half of the 20th century, Elovo was inhabited by a

Torbeši The Torbeši () are a Macedonian language, Macedonian-speaking Islam, Muslim ethnoreligious group in North Macedonia and Albania. The Torbeši are also referred to as Macedonian Muslims () or Muslim Macedonians. They have been culturally distin ...

population. p. 126. "Еден дел од торбешката група, кои на крајот на XVII век и во почетокот на XVIII-иот, во времето на големите миграциони движења во Македонија, ја напуштило старата територија (Дебарско) и се преселило во централните области на Македонија. Така се формирале шет торбешки села во Скопско (Пагаруша, Д. Количани, Држилово, Цветово, Елово, Умово) и две Велешко (Г. Врановци и Мелница)." In Elovo there are a number of

families (13) from the neighbouring village of Crn Vrv who reside there through marriage with locals and are assimilated in the village.MIKROTOPONIMIA E KARSHIAKËS SË SHKUPIT/edicioni i dytë X Idrizi Shkup, 2017. page 53 "Në Ellovë ka edhe disa familje shqiptare (13) të ardhura nga fshati i afërm Cërnivor për shkaqe martesore. Sipas provave që bëra, këta pjesëtarë të kombit shqiptar i pashë të asimiluar" According to the 2021 census, the village had a total of 198 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:Macedonian Census (2021)
''Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion''
The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2021 *Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 99 *

Turks Turk or Turks may refer to: Communities and ethnic groups * Turkish people, or the Turks, a Turkic ethnic group and nation * Turkish citizen, a citizen of the Republic of Turkey * Turkic peoples, a collection of ethnic groups who speak Turkic lang ...

98 *

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References

Villages in Studeničani Municipality Torbeši settlements {{Studeničani-geo-stub