Lazaropole ( mk, Лазарополе) is a village in the Municipality of Mavrovo and Rostuša,

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 ...

. Situated on a

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Mount Bistra The Bistra (, is a massif in North Macedonia. The massif has several summits higher than 2,000 metres, with the highest being Medenica at 2,163 metres above sea level. Limestone erosion on the mountain has created limestone fields. In the limes ...

and surrounded by

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and

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; at 1,350 m altitude, it is one of the highest settlements in the country. The village is named after a local medieval hero, Lazar, who according to legend was the sole survivor of a Turkish attack on his village. The rest of the residents were killed in a cave where they had sought refuge, while Lazar, the only survivor, crawled outside and built a new village. There are about 400 houses in the village. The older ones reveal the traces of the Mijaci highland building style. The village was the birthplace of numerous authors, educators, carvers, teachers, fresco and icon painters, and constructors. Especially picturesque are the village , built in 1838, and the small churches in the forests near the village.

Climate

Demographics

According to the 2021 census, the village had a total of 29 inhabitants, including 28 ethnic Macedonians and one Serb.Macedonian Census (2002)
Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2021

Culture

The traditional Macedonian folk dance

Teškoto Teškoto or Teshkoto ( mk, Тешкото, "the hard one"), is one of the most beautiful folk dances from western Macedonia, specifically from the Mijak ethnographic region. The dance represents the hard life that people had in this region. Its or ...

is from the area of Lazaropole.

People born in Lazaropole

Isaija Mažovski Isaija Radev Mažovski ( mk, Исаија Радев Мажовски, bg, Исая Радев Мажовски; 1852–1926) was a Mijak painter and activist. Mažovski sought political solutions in the liberation of Ottoman Macedonia. A Slavop ...

, painter and writer *, writer * * * *, writer

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