Držilovo

Village in Skopje, North Macedonia

41°51′N 21°21′E / 41.850°N 21.350°E / 41.850; 21.350Country

North MacedoniaRegion

SkopjeMunicipality

SopištePopulation

(2002)

• Total362Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Car platesSKWebsite.

Držilovo (Macedonian: Држилово) is a village in the municipality of Sopište, North Macedonia.

History

During the great migration movements in Macedonia at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, Slavic-speaking Muslims left the Debar area for the central regions of Macedonia and established villages such as Držilovo located in the Skopje area.^[1]

Demographics

On the 1927 ethnic map of Leonhard Schulze-Jena, Držilovo is shown as an Albanian village.^[2] According to the 1929 ethnographic map by Russian Slavist Afanasy Selishchev, Držilovo was an Albanian village.^[3]

In the second half of the 20th century, Držilovo was inhabited by a Torbeši population.^[1]^[4]

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 362 inhabitants.^[5] Ethnic groups in the village include:^[5]

Turks 242
Macedonians 115
Others 5

References

^ ^a ^b Vidoeski, Božidar (1998). Dijalektite na makedonskiot jazik. Vol. 1. Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite. ISBN 9789989649509. p. 126. "Еден дел од торбешката група, кои на крајот на XVII век и во почетокот на XVIII-иот, во времето на големите миграциони движења во Македонија, ја напуштило старата територија (Дебарско) и се преселило во централните области на Македонија. Така се формирале шет торбешки села во Скопско (Пагаруша, Д. Количани, Држилово, Цветово, Елово, Умово) и две Велешко (Г. Врановци и Мелница)."
^ Schultze Jena, Leonhard. Makedonien: Landschafts- und Kulturbilder. Jena, Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1927
^ Афанасий Селищев. „Полог и его болгарское население. Исторические, этнографические и диалектологические очерки северо-западной Македонии“. – София, 1929, стр. 26.
^ Idrizi, Xhemaludin (2003). Mikrotoponimia e Karshikës së Shkupit [Microtoponyms of Skopje's Karshiaka region. Skopje: Interdiskont. pp. 17, 52. ISBN 9989-815-37-2.
^ ^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. 174.