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Gostivar Municipality
Municipality of North Macedonia
Municipality of North Macedonia
| Field | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| name | Municipality of Gostivar | |
| native_name | Општина Гостивар | |
| Komuna e Gostivarit | ||
| settlement_type | Urban municipality | |
| subdivision_type | Country | |
| subdivision_name | ||
| subdivision_type1 | Region | |
| subdivision_name1 | [[File:Logo of Polog Region.svg | 13px]] Polog |
| image_flag | Flag of Gostivar Municipality.svg | |
| image_blank_emblem | Coat of arms of Gostivar Municipality.svg | |
| blank_emblem_type | Coat of arms | |
| image_map | Map of Gostivar Municipality.svg | |
| seat_type | Municipal seat | |
| seat | Gostivar | |
| leader_title | Mayor | |
| leader_name | Valbon Limani | |
| area_total_km2 | 513.39 | |
| population_total | 59770 | |
| population_density_km2 | 158 | |
| timezone | CET | |
| website | ||
| utc_offset | +1 | |
| blank_name_sec1 | Vehicle registration | |
| blank_info_sec1 | GV |
Komuna e Gostivarit
Gostivar ( ; ) is a municipality in the western part of North Macedonia. Gostivar is also the name of the town where the municipal seat is found. The municipality is part of the Polog Statistical Region.
Geography
The municipality borders
- the Mavrovo and Rostuša, Kičevo municipalities to the south,
- Makedonski Brod Municipality to the east,
- Brvenica and Vrapčište municipalities to the north, and
- Albania and Kosovo to the west.
Demographics
The municipality has 35 inhabited places, one town and 34 villages. According to the 2021 North Macedonia census, this municipality has 59,770 inhabitants.
| Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources | 3,409 | 5.7 |
|---|
Mother tongues among the municipality residents include:
- Albanian: 33,204 (55.6%)
- Macedonian: 14,313 (24.0%)
- Turkish: 7,576 (12.7%)
- Romani: 1,087 (1.8%)
- Others: 181 (0.3%)
- Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources: 3,409 (5.7%)
History
Several villages were burned down in Gostivar during 1912-16 by Serbian and Bulgarian forces. Two of these villages were Reč, which had a population in 1900 of 140 Muslim Albanians and 150 Orthodox Albanians, and Strezimir which at that time was inhabited by 56 Muslim Albanians and 180 Orthodox Albanians. Another such example is Štirovica.
On 26 November 2019, an earthquake struck Albania and Gostivar Municipality contributed humanitarian aid and teams of firefighters and doctors toward the relief effort for earthquake victims.
References
Works cited
References
- "Вкупно резидентно население во Република Северна Македонија според изјаснувањето за етничката припадност, по пол, по општини, Попис 2021".
- [https://makstat.stat.gov.mk/PXWeb/pxweb/mk/MakStat/MakStat__Popisi__Popis2021__NaselenieVkupno__Naselenie__EtnoKulturniKarakteristiki/T1015P21.px/table/tableViewLayout2/?rxid=391f4298-cffb-441f-ab02-65f4b712d1f9 2021 census, municipality by mother tongue]
- {{harvnb. Osmani. 2012
- Vasil Kanchov (1900). ''[http://www.promacedonia.org/vk/vk_2_42.htm Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics]''. Sofia. p. 91, 263.
- (27 November 2019). "Komunat shqiptare në Maqedoni anulojnë kremtimet për festat e nëntorit".
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