Zdunje (, , ) is a

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in the

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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. 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. The names are: Gjorgji Arbanas; Mill, son of Doksa; Daba, of his brother; Mano Arbanas (t. Arnaut); Ggjin Protogjer. In statistics gathered by

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in 1900, the village was inhabited by 300 Turks, 120

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, and 65 Bulgarian Exarchists. According to geographer Dimitri Mishev (D. M. Brancoff), in 1905, the town 64 Bulgarian Exarchists.

Demographics

As of the 2021 census, Zdunje had 1,140 residents with the following ethnic composition:Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
/ref> *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. Ethnic groups in the village include:Macedonian Census (2002)
''Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion''
The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 86. *

998 * Turks 659 * Macedonians 467 * Romani 9 *

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1 *Others 9

References

Villages in Gostivar Municipality Albanian communities in North Macedonia {{Gostivar-geo-stub