Kozjak, Resen
Kozjak
Козјак Kozyak | |
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Village | |
Kozjak Location within North Macedonia | |
Coordinates: 41°03′30″N 21°02′32″E / 41.05833°N 21.04222°E | |
Country | North Macedonia |
Region | Pelagonia |
Municipality | Resen |
Population (2002) | |
• Total | 117 |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Area code(s) | +389 |
Car plates | RE |
Kozjak (Macedonian: Козјак; Turkish: Kozyak; Albanian: Kojzaku) is a village in the Resen Municipality of the Republic of North Macedonia. It has 117 residents.[1]
Demographics[]
Kozjak is inhabited by a Turkish majority and a small number of Sunni Albanians.[2] It is one of only two villages, along with Gorna Bela Crkva, in Resen Municipality with no ethnic Macedonian inhabitants[3] and also one of two with a Turkish majority, the other being Lavci.[4]
Ethnic group |
census 1961 | census 1971 | census 1981 | census 1991 | census 1994 | census 2002 | ||||||
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Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
Macedonians | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 5 | 1.3 | 1 | 0.4 | 1 | 0.8 | 0 | 0.0 |
Albanians | 2 | 0.7 | 10 | 2.8 | 7 | 1.8 | 8 | 2.9 | 8 | 6.7 | 11 | 9.4 |
Turks | 297 | 99.3 | 342 | 96.9 | 337 | 85.1 | 159 | 57.8 | 111 | 92.5 | 106 | 90.6 |
others | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.3 | 47 | 11.9 | 107 | 38.9 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
Total | 299 | 353 | 396 | 275 | 120 | 117 |
Gallery[]
Sign hailing entrance on road into Kozjak
Architecture of Kozjak
Centuries old plane tree (now dead) in village centre
Architecture of Kozjak
Architecture of Kozjak
Mosque of Kozjak
Inside of Kozjak mosque
Muslim cemetery of Kozjak
Water fountain of Kozjak
Kozjak river
Fields of Kozjak
Makazi, a road intersection connecting Resen with Bitola located within Kozjak village boundaries
References[]
- ^ Municipality of Resen
- ^ Sugarman, Jane (1997). Engendering song: Singing and subjectivity at Prespa Albanian weddings. University of Chicago Press. pp. 9–11. ISBN 9780226779720.
- ^ Włodzimierz, Pianka (1970). Toponomastikata na Ohridsko-Prespanskiot bazen. Institut za makedonski jazik "Krste Misirkov". p. 124. "Но само со исклучок на Козјак и Г. Бела Црква, во сите селата живеат Македонци кои сочинуваат мнозинство."
- ^ Censuses of population 1948 - 2002 Archived 2013-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Villages in Resen Municipality