Matejče (Matejce)
Matejče (Матејче; ) is a village in the municipality of Lipkovo, North Macedonia. The village is known for the Orthodox Monastery of the Most Holy Mother of God, in the Skopska Crna Gora, at a height of 1005 metres, which was built in the 14th century.
According to the statistics of the Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov from 1900, 400 inhabitants lived in the village of Matejče, of which 536 were Albanians, 52 Romani and 50 Bulgarians.
According to the Secretary of the Bulgarian Exarchate Dimitar Mišev ("La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne"), in 1905 there were 104 Bulgarians in Matejče.
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 3394 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:
* Albanians 3012
* Serbs 325
* Macedonians 17
* Others 39
As of the 2021 census, Matejče had 2,961 residents with the following ethnic makeup:
* Albanians 2,855
According to the statistics of the Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov from 1900, 400 inhabitants lived in the village of Matejče, of which 536 were Albanians, 52 Romani and 50 Bulgarians.
According to the Secretary of the Bulgarian Exarchate Dimitar Mišev ("La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne"), in 1905 there were 104 Bulgarians in Matejče.
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 3394 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:
* Albanians 3012
* Serbs 325
* Macedonians 17
* Others 39
As of the 2021 census, Matejče had 2,961 residents with the following ethnic makeup:
* Albanians 2,855
Map - Matejče (Matejce)
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Country - Republic_of_Macedonia
The region's history begins with the kingdom of Paeonia, a mixed Thraco-Illyrian polity. In the late sixth century BC, the area was subjugated by the Persian Achaemenid Empire, then incorporated into the Kingdom of Macedonia in the fourth century BC. The Roman Republic conquered the region in the second century BC and made it part of the larger province of Macedonia. The area remained part of the Byzantine Empire, but was often raided and settled by Slavic tribes beginning in the sixth century of the Christian era. Following centuries of contention between the Bulgarian, Byzantine, and Serbian Empires, it was part of the Ottoman Empire from the mid-14th until the early 20th century, when, following the Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913, the modern territory of North Macedonia came under Serbian rule.
Currency / Language
ISO | Currency | Symbol | Significant figures |
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MKD | Macedonian denar | ден | 2 |
ISO | Language |
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SQ | Albanian language |
MK | Macedonian language |
SR | Serbian language |
TR | Turkish language |