Zavoj

Zavoj
Завој
Village
View of the village
View of the village
Zavoj is located in North Macedonia
Zavoj
Zavoj
Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 41°11′00″N 20°55′00″E / 41.183333°N 20.916667°E / 41.183333; 20.916667
Country North Macedonia
Region Southwestern
Municipality Ohrid
Population
 (2002)
 • Total
12
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
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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

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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]

Tribes in Zavoj

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Founders: Cvetanovci (9 houses), Krstanovci (8 houses) and Tasevci (6 houses), all three tribes come from Old Zavoj [4]

References

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  1. ^ Macedonia and Edirne: Population Statistics from 1873. Sofia, Macedonian Scientific Institute - Sofia, Macedonian Library № 33, 1995. ISBN 954-8187-21-3 . pp. 104-105.
  2. ^ Vasil Kanchov. "Macedonia. "Ethnography and statistics." Sofia, 1900, p. 252
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Trifunoski, Jovan F. (1992). Ohrid-Struga area  : anthropogeographical studies . Belgrade: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. ISBN 8670251582. OCLC 27418468