Municipality_of_Kruševo

Kruševo Municipality

Kruševo Municipality

Municipality of North Macedonia

Kruševo Municipality (Macedonian: Крушево [ˈkruʃɛvɔ] ⓘ; Albanian: Krushevë) is a municipality in the central region of North Macedonia. Kruševo is also the name of the town where the municipal seat is found. This municipality is part of the Pelagonia Statistical Region.

Quick Facts Општина Крушево (Macedonian)Komuna e Krushevës (Albanian), Country ...

Geography

The municipality borders Plasnica Municipality to the northwest, Makedonski Brod Municipality to the north, Dolneni Municipality and Krivogaštani Municipality to the east, Mogila Municipality to the south, and Demir Hisar Municipality and Kičevo Municipality to the west.

Demographics

A large part of the Macedonian population in Kruševo originate from Lazaropole and descend from Mijaks, a Macedonian sub-group who settled in the town alongside the Aromanians by the middle of the nineteenth century.[1][2] Aromanians settled in Kruševo in addition to Orthodox Albanian refugees often in groups of families and led by a priest fleeing the 18th century socio-political and economic crises in what is now southern Albania.[1][2] Orthodox Albanians arrived from Vithkuq and the Opar region while local Kruševo traditions also relate that other families arrived from Korçë and the villages of Polenë, Dardhë, and Mborje.[1] In the early 20th century, Kruševo was a small town in Manastir Vilayet with a mixed population of 4,950 Bulgarians, 4,000 Vlachs (Aromanians) and 400 Christian Albanians, according to Bulgarian geographer Vasil Kanchov's statistics.[3] Due to intermarriage with locals, at the onset of the twentieth century few in the small local Orthodox Albanian community spoke Albanian.[1]

The municipality of Kruševo also contains a Muslim Albanian population living in the region.[4] In the modern era relations between Kruševo Aromanians and Muslim Albanians remain cordial, as do relations of Kruševo's Christian inhabitants with Muslim villagers of the municipality when they arrive into town to conduct business on market day and attend to administrative tasks.[4] In 1996 the creation of Žitoše municipality (now part of Dolneni Municipality) reduced some of Kruševo Municipality's religious and linguistic diversity as the new municipal unit included a sizable number of Muslim Albanians.[4]

According to the last national census from 2021, this municipality has 8,385 inhabitants.[5] Ethnic groups in the municipality include:

2002 2021
Number % Number %
TOTAL 9,684 100 8,385 100
Macedonians 6,081 62.8 4,316 51.47
Albanians 2,089 21.5 2,464 29.39
Aromanians 1,020 10.5 867 10.34
Turks / / 283 3.38
others 494 5.2 153 1.82
Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources n/a 302 3.6
  • Religious affiliation according to the 2002 and 2021 Macedonian censuses:
2002 2021
Number % Number %
TOTAL 9,684 100 8,385 100
Orthodox 7,096 73.3 3,351 62.1
Christians / / 1,843
Catholics 3 0.03 11
Islam 2,514 26.0 2,859 34.1
others 71 0.73 19 0.23
Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources n/a 302 3.60
Macedonians Albanians Turks Vlachs Roma Bosniaks others TOTAL
Year Births % Births % Births % Births % Births % Births % Births % Births
2010 52 46.43 44 39.29 10 8.93 1 0.89 0 0.00 1 0.89 4 3.57 112
2011 40 41.24 42 43.30 4 4.12 2 2.06 2 2.06 3 3.09 4 4.12 97
2012 34 31.48 55 50.93 12 11.1 2 1.85 3 2.78 0 0.00 2 1.85 108
2013 55 42.64 55 42.64 13 10.1 0 0.00 0 0.00 3 2.33 3 2.33 129
2014 43 42.16 48 47.06 3 2.94 1 0.98 3 2.94 2 1.96 2 1.96 102
2015 45 39.13 38 33.04 20 17.4 8 6.96 2 1.74 1 0.87 1 0.87 115
2016 41 41.41 47 47.47 4 4.04 2 2.02 1 1.01 3 3.03 1 1.01 99
2017 34 38.64 36 40.91 11 12.5 2 2.27 3 3.41 1 1.14 1 1.14 88
2018 38 43.68 40 45.98 4 4.60 3 3.45 0 0.00 2 2.30 0 0.00 87
2019 29 34.52 40 47.62 10 11.9 3 3.57 1 1.19 1 1.19 0 0.00 84
2020 42 40.78 52 50.49 2 1.94 2 1.94 2 1.94 2 1.94 1 0.97 103
2021 24 34.29 36 51.43 4 5.71 2 2.86 0 0.00 2 2.86 2 2.86 70
2022 29 40.27 37 51.39 3 4.17 1 1.39 1 1.39 0 0.00 1 1.39 72

Inhabited places

There are 18 inhabited places in this municipality.

Inhabited Places TotalMacedoniansAlbaniansTurksRomaAromaniansSerbsBosniansOthers
Kruševo Municipality8,3854,3162,464283-867--455
Aldanci4425429-----8
Arilevo22-------
Belušino92-91-----1
Birino 0 - - - - - - - -
Borino385-31313---4712
Bučin522502---1--19
Dolno Divjaci2725------2
Gorno Divjaci1111-------
Jakrenovo276-14648---5428
Kruševo4.1043.0539--866101165
Miloševo4242-------
Norovo770-725-----45
Ostrilci1919-------
Presil574425291----2
Pusta Reka5346------7
Saždevo476-222221---627
Selce66-------
Sveto Mitrani357336------21
Vrboec227227-------

Education

Education in the Municipality is organized in 2 elementary schools and 1 high school:

  • Elementary School "Nikola Karev"
  • Elementary School "Cyril and Methodius"
  • High School "Naum Naumovski - Borce"

During the school year 2018/2019, 750 students attended elementary school in the territory of Municipality, of which 366 Albanians, 321 Macedonians, 57 Aromanians and 6 others.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    Koukoudis, Asterios (2003). The Vlachs: Metropolis and Diaspora. Thessaloniki: Zitros Publications. ISBN 9789607760869. p.355. "In many cases, the refugees arrived in organised groups of families with a leader, usually a priest. Right from the start, the Vlachs were accompanied by Arvanites from Vithkuq and the Opar area. Those from Vithkuq preceded those from Opar and occupied the western part of the settlement, forming their own district there. According to local lore, other Arvanite families came from Korçë and the surrounding villages of Polenë, Dardhë, and Mborje. By the early twentieth century, intermarriage meant that very few families spoke Albanian any more."; p. 436. "Mijaks... Quite a large group, from Lazaropole mainly, formed the nucleus of the Slavonic- speaking population of Kruševo, who had settled alongside the Vlachs by the mid-nineteenth century."
  2. [2]
    Zografski, Dančo (1986). Odbrani dela vo šest knigi: Makedonskoto nacionalno dviženje. Naša kniga. p. 21. "Населението на Крушево во време на востанието гб сочинуваат Македонци, Власи и Албанци. Први се доселиле во него Власите кон втората половина од XVIII век, односно по познатите грчки востанија од 1769 година..."
  3. [3]
    Васил Кънчов. „Македония. Етнография и статистика“. София, 1900, стр.240 (Kanchov, Vasil. Macedonia — ethnography and statistics Sofia, 1900, p. 39-53).
  4. [4]
    Brown, Keith (2003). The Past in Question: Modern Macedonia and the Uncertainties of Nation. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691099958. p. 224. "In the contemporary setting, reportedly, relations between Vlahs and Albanians remained cordial in the Kruševo region. So, more generally, do those between Kruševo's Christian population and the Muslim villagers in the municipality who come to town to deal with administrative tasks and buy and sell on market days."; p. 275. "The 1994 census was conducted under international supervision, and was followed in 1996 by the reorganization of administrative boundaries, which created an effect of reducing the Kruševo's religious and linguistic diversity, as the majority of those included in the new municipality of Žitoše were Muslim Albanians."
  5. [5]
    2002 census results in English and Macedonian (PDF)
  6. [6]
    "Makstat: Number of primary school students 2018/2019". Archived from the original on 2020-08-23. Retrieved 2020-09-06.

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