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]
Kozjak
Козјак Kozyak Kojzak | |
|---|---|
Village | |
 Kozjak | |
  Kozjak Location within North Macedonia | |
| Coordinates: 41°03′30″N 21°02′32″E / 41.05833°N 21.04222°E | |
| Country |  North Macedonia |
| Region |  Pelagonia |
| Municipality |  Resen |
| Population (2021) | |
• Total | 85 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Area code | +389 |
| Car plates | RE |
Demographics
editKozjak 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
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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
edit- ^ "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