Demir Hisar (town)
Demir Hisar
Демир Хисар (Macedonian) | |
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Town | |
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Coordinates: 41°13′15″N 21°12′11″E / 41.22083°N 21.20306°E | |
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Government | |
• Mayor | Nikola Najdovski (VMRO-DPMNE)[1] |
Population (2021) | |
• Total | 2,431 |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Area code | (+389) 047 |
Car plates | DH |
Climate | Cfb |
Demir Hisar (Macedonian: Демир Хисар [dɛˈmir‿xisar] ) (formerly Murgaševo until 1946) is a small town in North Macedonia. It is the seat of Demir Hisar Municipality.
Etymology
[edit]The name of the town comes from Ottoman Turkish Demir Hisar (Iron Fortress) when the settlement was part of the Ottoman Empire.
Demographics
[edit]The Yugoslav census of 1953 recorded 902 people in Demir Hisar of whom 449 were Macedonians, 412 Turks, 27 Albanians and 14 others.[2] The 1961 Yugoslav census recorded 1129 people of whom 1047 were Macedonians, 39 Albanians, 24 Turks, and 19 others.[2] The 1971 Yugoslav census recorded 1828 people of whom 1731 were Macedonians, 34 Turks, 30 Albanians, 4 Romani, 1 Bosniak and 28 others.[2] The 1981 Yugoslav census recorded 2283 people of whom were 2145 Macedonians, 75 Albanians, 19 Turks, 17 Romani and 27 others.[2] The Macedonian census of 1994 recorded 2447 people of whom 2336 were Macedonians, 9 Albanians, 4 Turks and 98 others.[2] According to the 2002 census, the town had a total of 2593 inhabitants.[3] Ethnic groups in the village include:[3]
- Macedonians 2,473 (95.37%)
- Albanians 62 (2.39%)
- Turks 22 (0.85%)
- Romani 11 (0.42%)
- Serbs 7 (0.27%)
- Vlachs 6 (0.23%)
- Bosniaks 2 (0.08%)
- Others 10 (0.39%)
As of the 2021 census, Demir Hisar had 2,431 residents with the following ethnic composition:[4]
- Macedonians 2,281 (93.8%)
- Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 69 (2.8%)
- Albanians 39 (1.6%)
- Roma 16 (0.7%)
- Vlachs 9 (0.4%)
- Serbs 5 (0.2%)
- Others 12 (0.5%)
History
[edit]In the 1467/1468 Ottoman defter, Murgaševo had 115 households, 8 bachelors and 3 widows. The majority of household heads bore Slavic or general Christian personal names, however, when including kinship ties, the Albanian element constituted just under a quarter.[5]
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Murgaševo was inhabited by 240 Muslim Albanians.[6] In 1905 in statistics gathered by Dimitar Mishev Brancoff, Murgaševo was inhabited by 240 Muslim Albanians.[7] The population of Demir Hisar (Murgaševo) are Tosks, a subgroup of southern Albanians.[8] In the 2010s, only three Albanian families remain in Demir Hisar and nearby Albanian villagers from Obednik are assisting the community in efforts to repair the dilapidated old village mosque.[9]
Gallery
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Old Ottoman-era mosque of Murgaševo (Demir Hisar)
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Couple of Demir Hisar, dressed in folklore costume, photographed in the studio of the brothers Manaki in Bitola, 1916
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Council Seats House of Demir Hisar
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Main road to Demir Hisar, 2010
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Streets in Demir Hisar, 2010
References
[edit]- ^ Local Elections 2021 – Mayor of Demir Hisar. State Election Commission.
- ^ a b c d e Sherafedin Kaso (2005). The settlements with Muslim population in Macedonia. Logos-A. p. 74. ISBN 978-9989-58-155-7..
- ^ 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. 230.
- ^ Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
- ^ . Димитров, Никола (2017). ГЕОГРАФИЈА НА НАСЕЛБИ - Општина Демир Хисар -. Битола: Национална и универзитетска библиотека "Св. Климент Охридски", Скопје. p. 27-28.
- ^ Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 238.
- ^ D.M.Brancoff (1905). La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne. Paris. pp. 172-173.
- ^ Indogermanische Gesellschaft (1929). Indogermanisches Jahrbuch, Vol. 13. Karl J. Trübner. p. 183. "Monastir (Bitol) auch für das Studium des Alb. geeignet: Ostrec (11 km von Monastir), Zlokućani haben geg., Dihovo, Bratindol, Magarevo, Ramna, Kažani, Dolenci, Lera, Crnovec, Drevenik, Murgašovo tosk. Bevölkerung. Die tosk."
- ^ Hasani, Qenan (30 July 2011). "Obednikasit ndihmojnë xhaminë e Murgashovës, I shpëtoi 2001-shit, rrezikohet tani [Obednik villagers assist the mosque of Demir Hisar, it escaped the events of 2001, though now is endangered] Archived 2017-08-03 at the Wayback Machine". Koha. p. 7.
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