Zavoj
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Zavoj
Завој | |
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Village | |
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  Zavoj Location within North Macedonia | |
| Coordinates: 41°11′00″N 20°55′00″E / 41.183333°N 20.916667°E | |
| Country |  North Macedonia |
| Region |  Southwestern |
| Municipality |  Ohrid |
| Population (2002) | |
| • Total | 12 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Website | . |
Zavoj (Macedonian: Завој) is a village in the municipality of Ohrid, North Macedonia. It used to be part of the former municipality of Kosel.
A small village, there are no shops or schools in Zavoj. There are about a hundred houses and it houses a church of Sv. Bogorodica (The Holy Mother of God) where thousands gather to the village to celebrate the Holy Day on 28 August every year.
Demographics
[edit]In the Ethnography of the Provinces of Adrianople, Monastir and Thessaloniki, published in Constantinople in 1878, Zavoj is listed as a village with 60 households and 170 Bulgarian inhabitants.[1] According to the statistics of Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov from 1900, 280 inhabitants lived in Zavoj, all Bulgarian Exarchists.[2]
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 12 inhabitants.[3] Ethnic groups in the village include:[3]
- Macedonians 12
Tribes in Zavoj
[edit]Founders: Cvetanovci (9 houses), Krstanovci (8 houses) and Tasevci (6 houses), all three tribes come from Old Zavoj [4]
References
[edit]- ^ Macedonia and Edirne: Population Statistics from 1873. Sofia, Macedonian Scientific Institute - Sofia, Macedonian Library № 33, 1995. ISBN 954-8187-21-3 . pp. 104-105.
- ^ Vasil Kanchov. "Macedonia. "Ethnography and statistics." Sofia, 1900, p. 252
- ^ 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. 117.
- ^ Trifunoski, Jovan F. (1992). Ohrid-Struga area : anthropogeographical studies . Belgrade: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. ISBN 8670251582. OCLC 27418468
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