Kozjak
Козјак Kozyak | |
|---|---|
Village | |
![]() Kozjak | |
![]() Kozjak Location within North Macedonia | |
| Coordinates: 41°03′30″N 21°02′32″E / 41.05833°N 21.04222°E | |
| Country | |
| Region | |
| Municipality | |
| Population (2021) | |
| • Total | 85 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Area code | +389 |
| Car plates | RE |
Kozjak (Macedonian: Козјак; Turkish: Kozyak; Albanian: Kojzaku) is a village in the Resen Municipality of the Republic of North Macedonia. It has 117 residents.[1]
Demographics
Kozjak is inhabited by a Turkish majority and a small number of Albanians.[2] It is one of two villages with a Turkish majority, the other being Lavci.[3]
| Ethnic group |
census 1961 | census 1971 | census 1981 | census 1991 | census 1994 | census 2002 | census 2021 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
| Macedonians | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 5 | 1.3 | 1 | 0.4 | 1 | 0.8 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1.2 |
| Albanians | 2 | 0.7 | 10 | 2.8 | 7 | 1.8 | 8 | 2.9 | 8 | 6.7 | 11 | 9.4 | 8 | 9.4 |
| Turks | 297 | 99.3 | 342 | 96.9 | 337 | 85.1 | 159 | 57.8 | 111 | 92.5 | 106 | 90.6 | 74 | 87.1 |
| others | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.3 | 47 | 11.9 | 107 | 38.9 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources | 2 | 2.4 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 299 | 353 | 396 | 275 | 120 | 117 | 85 | |||||||
Gallery
Sign hailing entrance on road into Kozjak
Architecture of Kozjak
Centuries-old plane tree (now dead) in village centre
Architecture of Kozjak
Architecture of Kozjak
Mosque of Kozjak
Inside of Kozjak mosque
Muslim cemetery of Kozjak
Water fountain of Kozjak
Kozjak river
Fields of Kozjak
Makazi, a road intersection connecting Resen with Bitola located within Kozjak village boundaries
References
- ↑ "Municipality of Resen". Archived from the original on 2018-08-31. Retrieved 2013-08-27.
- ↑ Sugarman, Jane (1997). Engendering song: Singing and subjectivity at Prespa Albanian weddings. University of Chicago Press. pp. 9–11. ISBN 9780226779720.
- ↑ Censuses of population 1948–2002 Archived 2013-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
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