Saraj Municipality
Municipality of Saraj Општина Сарај Komuna e Sarajit | |
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Rural municipality | |
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Municipal seat | Skopje |
Government | |
• Mayor | Blerim Bexheti (DUI) |
Area | |
• Total | 229.06 km2 (88.44 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Total | 38,399 |
Official Language(s) | |
• primary | Macedonian, Albanian |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
Website | Official Website |
Saraj (Macedonian: , Albanian: Saraj) is one of the ten municipalities that make up the city of Skopje, the capital of the Republic of North Macedonia.
- Saraj, which means "palace" in Turkish, is also the name of the village where the municipal seat is found.
- It is a rural municipality and it is not part of the urban core of Skopje proper.
Geography
[edit]Saraj borders
- Jegunovce Municipality to the northwest,
- Želino Municipality to the southwest,
- Sopište Municipality to the south,
- Karpoš Municipality and Ǵorče Petrov Municipality to the east, and
- Kosovo to the north.
History
[edit]In the early 2000s municipal boundaries within Macedonia in some areas were redrawn.[1] During difficult negotiations the governing Macedonian Social Democrats (SDSM) gave in to the request of its Albanian coalition partner that wanted Albanians within Skopje to surpass the 20% population mark by attaching two rural Albanian inhabited municipalities, Saraj and Kondovo.[1] The municipalities attachment to the capital city raised the Albanian population from 15.30% to 20.49%.[1] The change was seen as an important win among Albanians, while Macedonians were concerned with a more visible Albanian presence in Skopje and the increasing fragmentation of the urban population based on ethnicity.[1]
Demographics
[edit]According to the last national census from 2021, Saraj has 38,399 inhabitants.[2]
Ethnic groups in the municipality include:
- Albanians = 34,586 (90.1%)
- Macedonians = 1,005 (2.6%)
- Bosniaks = 1,043 (2.6%)
- others.
2002 | 2021 | |||
Number | % | Number | % | |
TOTAL | 35,408 | 100 | 38,399 | 100 |
Albanians | 32,408 | 91.53 | 34,586 | 90.07 |
Macedonians | 1,377 | 3.89 | 1,005 | 2.62 |
Turks | ... | ... | 28 | 0.07 |
Roma | ... | ... | 255 | 0.66 |
Bosniaks | 1,120 | 3.16 | 1,043 | 2.72 |
others | ... | ... | 16 | 0.04 |
Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources | n/a | n/a | 1,450 | 3.78 |
Inhabited places
[edit]There are 23 inhabited places in this municipality.
Inhabited Places | Total | Macedonians | Albanians | Turks | Roma | Vlachs | Serbs | Bosnians | Others |
Saraj Municipality | 38,399 | 1,005 | 34,586 | 28 | 255 | - | - | 1,043 | 1,466 |
Arnakija | 1.163 | 5 | 1.086 | - | - | - | - | - | 71 |
Bojane | 2.132 | 1 | 2.070 | - | - | - | - | - | 60 |
Bukoviḱ | 1.842 | - | 1.769 | - | - | - | - | - | 73 |
Čajlane | 639 | - | 602 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 37 |
Dolno Svilare | 2.172 | - | 2.128 | - | - | - | - | - | 46 |
Dvorce | 145 | - | 141 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 |
Glumovo | 2.152 | 1 | 2.060 | - | - | - | - | 32 | 59 |
Gorno Svilare | 845 | - | 830 | - | - | - | - | - | 15 |
Grčec | 36 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 33 |
Kondovo | 3.626 | 18 | 3.353 | 9 | - | - | 2 | 66 | 177 |
Kopanica | 1.790 | - | 1.761 | - | - | - | - | - | 29 |
Krušopek | 2.017 | 4 | 1.977 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 35 |
Laskarci | 1.169 | - | 1.127 | - | - | - | - | - | 42 |
Ljubin | 2.426 | 5 | 1.493 | 5 | 1 | - | - | 859 | 64 |
Matka | 466 | 156 | 248 | - | - | - | 1 | 5 | 55 |
Paničari | 130 | - | 107 | - | - | - | - | - | 23 |
Raduša | 1.533 | - | 1.447 | - | - | - | - | - | 86 |
Raoviḱ | 79 | - | 40 | - | - | - | - | - | 39 |
Rašče | 2.835 | 1 | 2.760 | - | - | - | - | - | 74 |
Rudnik Raduša | 179 | - | 156 | - | - | - | - | - | 23 |
Saraj | 6.265 | 307 | 5.379 | 11 | 167 | - | 4 | 73 | 324 |
Semenište | 798 | 2 | 754 | 9 | - | - | - | 5 | 37 |
Šiševo | 3.958 | 505 | 3.294 | 2 | 87 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 61 |
Twin towns
[edit]Twin municipalities
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Ragaru, Nadege (2008). "The Political Uses and Social Lives of "National Heroes": Controversies over Skanderbeg's Statue in Skopje". Südosteuropa. 56 (4): 535.
- ^ 2021 census results in English and Macedonian (PDF)
- ^ Komuna e Sarajit binjakëzim me komunën turke Uskudar Archived 2012-06-04 at the Wayback Machine, INA, 2012-06-01 (in Albanian)
External links
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