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Sirkovo

Coordinates: 41°30′21″N 21°53′21″E / 41.505722°N 21.889118°E / 41.505722; 21.889118
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Sirkovo
Сирково
Village
View of the village
View of the village
Sirkovo is located in North Macedonia
Sirkovo
Sirkovo
Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 41°30′21″N 21°53′21″E / 41.505722°N 21.889118°E / 41.505722; 21.889118
Country North Macedonia
Region Vardar
Municipality Rosoman
Population
 (2002)
 • Total
603
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
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Sirkovo (Macedonian: Сирково) is a village in the municipality of Rosoman, North Macedonia.

History

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Sirkovo has a history over 550 years. The settlement is recorded as village and as "Sirkova" in the Ottoman detailed Tahrir Defter number 4 dating to 1478 (Hijri:881)[1] and as a village of the Köprülü kaza.[2]

Demographics

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According to the statistics of the Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov from 1900, 1471 inhabitants lived in Sirkovo, 1400 Muslim Bulgarians, 60 Christian Bulgarians and 11 Romani.[3] On the 1927 ethnic map of Leonhard Schulze-Jena, the village is shown as a fully Muslim Bulgarian village.[4] According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 603 inhabitants.[5] Ethnic groups in the village include:[5]

References

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  1. ^ Özkılınç, Ahmet; Coşkun, Ali; Sivridağ, Abdullah; Yüzbaşıoğlu, Murat, eds. (2001). 370 Numaralı Muhâsebe-i Vilâyet-i Rûm-ili Defteri (937/1530) I (in Turkish). Ankara, Türkiye: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü. p. 40. ISBN 978-975-19-3292-1.
  2. ^ Ünal, Uğur; Budak, Mustafa; Bayram, Sabahattin; Yıldıztaş, Mümin (2013). Özkılınç, Ahmet; Coşkun, Ali; Sivridağ, Abdullah (eds.). Osmanlı Yer Adları: I - RUMELİ EYALETİ (1514-1550) (in Turkish). Ankara, Türkiye. p. 752. ISBN 9789751962386.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ Vasil Kanchov. "Macedonia. "Ethnography and statistics." Sofia, 1900, p. 154
  4. ^ Schultze Jena, Leonhard. Makedonien: Landschafts- und Kulturbilder. Jena, Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1927
  5. ^ a b Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 166.