Blace ( mk, Блаце, sq, Bllacë) is a
village
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in the
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
of
Čučer-Sandevo
Čučer-Sandevo ( mk, ) is a village in Republic of North Macedonia. It is a seat of the Čučer-Sandevo Municipality.
Geography
The village is located in the northern part of the Skopje Valley, in the central part of the territory of the Muni ...
,
Republic of North Macedonia
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.
History
On the 1st of November 1944, the village was the scene of a massacre in which a total of 120
Albanians were killed by the
XVI Macedonian Partisan Brigade, led by Gligorije Šaranović-"Gliša", under the pretext of collaboration with the occupier.
During the
Kosovo War
The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that started 28 February 1998 and lasted until 11 June 1999. It was fought by the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the wa ...
, Blace temporarily hosted around 65,000 ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo.
Demographics
As of the
2021 census, Blace had 862 residents with the following ethnic composition:
Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
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*Albanians 760
*Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 102
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 972 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. 192.
* Albanians 968
* Macedonians 1
*Others 3
References
External links
Villages in Čučer-Sandevo Municipality
Albanian communities in North Macedonia
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