Marvinci ( Macedonian and sr-cyr, Марвинци) is a village in the

Valandovo Valandovo ( mk, Валандово ) is a small town in southeastern North Macedonia. The city is the seat of Valandovo Municipality. History Ancient Period Evidence of life can be found beginning in the 10th-7th centuries B.C. There is a settle ...

municipality, in the southeastern 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 ...

Geography

Marvinci is located in the southeast of the country, some 8 km from the nearest town, also the municipal seat, Valandovo. The village is located in the historical region of Bojmija, in the valley of the

Vardar The Vardar (; mk, , , ) or Axios () is the longest river in North Macedonia and the second longest river in Greece, in which it reaches the Aegean Sea at Thessaloniki. It is long, out of which are in Greece, and drains an area of around . Th ...

, near 70 m above sea level. The surroundings of the village is plain and fertile agricultural area. The climate is

humid continental A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and freezing ...

, with notable influence of the Aegean (hot summers).

Population

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 504 inhabitants, out of which a majority declared as

Serbs The Serbs ( sr-Cyr, Срби, Srbi, ) are the most numerous South Slavic ethnic group native to the Balkans in Southeastern Europe, who share a common Serbian ancestry, culture, history and language. The majority of Serbs live in their na ...

(56%), the rest as Macedonians (44%).2002 census results
in English and Macedonian (PDF) The predominant religion of the population is

Eastern Orthodoxy Eastern Orthodoxy, also known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity, is one of the three main Branches of Christianity, branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholic Church, Catholicism and Protestantism. Like the Pentarchy of the first m ...

References

{{Authority control Villages in Valandovo Municipality Serb communities in North Macedonia