Železnec ( mk, Железнец) is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

in the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

of Demir Hisar,

North Macedonia North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Socialist Feder ...

Demographics

In the 1467/1468 Ottoman defter, the village had 16 households, 1 widow and 1 bachelor. The onomastics consisted of Christian mixed Slavic-Albanian anthroponyms, with a slight predominance for Slavic ones. In statistics gathered by

Vasil Kanchov Vasil Kanchov ( bg, Васил Кънчов, Vasil Kanchov) (26 July 1862 – 6 February 1902) was a Bulgarian geographer, ethnographer and politician. Biography Vasil Kanchov was born in Vratsa. Upon graduating from High school in Lom, ...

in 1900, the village of Železnec was inhabited by 320 Christian Bulgarians.Vasil Kanchov (1900).
Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics
'. Sofia. p. 236. According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 57 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:Macedonian Census (2002)
''Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion''
The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 93. * Macedonians 57

References

Villages in Demir Hisar Municipality Villages in North Macedonia {{DemirHisar-geo-stub