Gostivar ( mk, Гостивар ; sq, Komuna e Gostivarit) is a municipality in the western part of
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 ...
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Gostivar
Gostivar ( mk, Гостивар , Albanian and Turkish: ''Gostivar''), is a city in North Macedonia, located in the upper Polog valley region. It is one of the largest municipalities in the country with a population of 81,042, and the town also ...
'' is also the name of the town where the municipal seat is found.
** Gostivar Municipality is part of the
Polog Statistical Region
The Polog Statistical Region ( mk, Полошки Регион; Albanian:Rajoni i Pollogut) is one of eight statistical regions of the Republic of North Macedonia. Polog, located in the northwestern part of the country, borders Albania and Kosov ...
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Geography
The municipality borders
* the
Mavrovo and Rostuša,
Kičevo municipalities to the south,
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Makedonski Brod Municipality
Makedonski Brod ( mk, Македонски Брод ) is a municipality in western North Macedonia, named after the town of Makedonski Brod, where the municipal seat is located. Makedonski Brod Municipality is part of the Southwestern Statistical ...
to the east,
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Brvenica and
Vrapčište municipalities to the north, and
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Albania
Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and shares ...
and
Kosovo
Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Euro ...
to the west.
Demographics
The municipality has 35 inhabited places, one town and 34 villages.
According to the last national census from 2021 this municipality has 59,770 inhabitants.
History
Several villages were burned down in Gostivar during 1912-16 by Serbian and Bulgarian forces.
[."Tërnica, Reçi, Boletini, Dëbova, Strezimiri, Zavojska dhe Shtirovica deri në vitin 1916 u dogjën nga serbët dhe bullgarët. ërnica, Reçi, Boletini, Dëbova, Strezimiri, Zavojska and Shtirovica until 1916 were burned by Serbs and Bulgarians.] 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.
[Vasil Kanchov (1900). ]
Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics
'. Sofia. p. 91, 263. 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
External links
Official website
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Municipalities of North Macedonia