Radiovce

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Radiovce
Радиовце
Radovec
Village
Radiovce pogled.jpg
Radiovce is located in North Macedonia
Radiovce
Radiovce
Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 42°00′N 20°58′E / 42.000°N 20.967°E / 42.000; 20.967Coordinates: 42°00′N 20°58′E / 42.000°N 20.967°E / 42.000; 20.967
Country North Macedonia
RegionLogo of Polog Region.svg Polog
MunicipalityCoat of arms of Municipality of Brvenica.svg Brvenica
Population
 (2002)
 • Rakari1,049
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
1200
Area code+389 044
Car platesTE

Radiovce (Macedonian: Радиовце, Macedonian pronunciation: [raˈdiɔftsɛ]; Albanian: Radovec) is a village in Brvenica Municipality near the town of Tetovo in North Macedonia. The village of Radiovce is one of the newest in the municipality. The village is divided into several neighbourhoods including: Upper Radiovce; Middle Radiovce; Lower Radiovce; Zbiralo; Vakov; and Koriḱansko.

Geography and position

Bogovinjska river and lake
St. Athanasius' Church in the Radiovce.

Radiovce is one of only a few villages in the Brvenica Municipality that is completely on flat land. The village lies near the Vardar and Bogovinjska rivers. These two rivers make for fertile soil and are good for agricultural and fishing purposes. Corn, beans, wheat, rye are some of the typical crops grown in Radiovce. The Suva Gora mountain, located near the village, is an important source of wood.

History

At the end of the 19th century, Radiovce was part of the Tetovo region of the Ottoman Empire. In 1900, roughly 140 people lived in the village, mostly Orthodox Slavs. After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Radiovce fell under Serbian control. After the end of the World War I, Radiovce, along with the rest of the territory of that is now the Republic of Macedonia, became part of a new kingdom called the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and later on after 1945 SR Macedonia became an equal state of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. After the fall of SFRY, Radiovce became part of the newly independent Republic of Macedonia.


Population and demographics

According to the census in 2002, 1,049 people live in Radiovce. There is a mix of different ethnicities; 346 are Macedonians, 691 are Albanians and the rest are of other ethnicities. Of historical point of view, the population of Radiovce has always been with different ethnic groups. Also, it must be mentioned that the people have come from different parts of the Polog valley and from different parts of Macedonia. A big part of the population has come from the nearest villages Žerovjane, Lisec, Gradec, Strimnica and from the Porečie valley. The Albanian people primary have come from the villages Gurgurnica, Korita and Čegrane. Other nationalities in Radiovce are few Roma people and few Serbs. According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 1049 inhabitants.[1] Ethnic groups in the village include:[1]

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References

  1. ^ 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. 75.

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