Srbjani

Village in Southwestern, North Macedonia

41°29′08″N 20°56′58″E / 41.48556°N 20.94944°E / 41.48556; 20.94944Country

North MacedoniaRegion

SouthwesternMunicipality

KičevoPopulation

(2021)

• Total518Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Car platesKIWebsite.

Srbjani (Macedonian: Србјани,Albanian: Sërbjani) is a village in the municipality of Kičevo, North Macedonia. It used to be part of the former Drugovo Municipality.

Demographics

The village is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kırçova. The village had a total of 3 households and 44 households which belonged to the zaim and the timariot.^[1]

As of the 2021 census, Srbjani had 518 residents with the following ethnic composition:^[2]

Macedonians 288
Turks 139
Albanians 61
Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 28
Others 2

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 495 inhabitants.^[3] Ethnic groups in the village include:^[3]

Macedonians 281
Turks 164
Albanians 47
Others 3

References

^ Qerim Dalipi. "NAHIJA E KËRÇOVËS SIPAS REGJISTRIMIT TË VITEVE 1467-1468 (Aspekte shoqërore)". Gjurmime Albanologjike - Seria e shkencave historike 47:29-48.
^ Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
^ ^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. 101.