Čučer-Sandevo ( mk, ) is a village in

Republic 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 Yugoslavia. It ...

. It is a seat of the

Čučer-Sandevo Municipality Čučer-Sandevo Municipality ( mk, , sq, Çuçer) is a municipality in northern part of North Macedonia. '' Čučer-Sandevo'' is also the name of the village where the municipal seat is found. It is located in the Skopje Statistical Region. Ge ...

Geography

The village is located in the northern part of the

Skopje Valley Skopje ( , , ; mk, Скопје ; sq, Shkup) is the capital and List of cities in North Macedonia by population, largest city of North Macedonia. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre. The territory of Sk ...

, in the central part of the territory of the Municipality of Čučer-Sandevo. The village is hilly, at an altitude of 540 meters. The area covers 11 km². In the area, the

pastures Pasture (from the Latin ''pastus'', past participle of ''pascere'', "to feed") is land used for grazing. Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep, or swine ...

cover 596 hectares, 238 hectares fall to the

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, while the

forests A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, and ecological function. The United Nations' ...

have 114 hectares. The village is located on southwestern parts of

Skopska Crna Gora tr, Karadağ, italics=no , photo = Skopska Crna Gora-MKD.JPG , photo_caption = , photo_size = 250 , highest = Ramno , elevation_m = 1651 , elevation_ref = , prominence_m = , prominence_ref = , listing = , location = North Macedonia ...

. Čučer-Sandevo is 15 km away from

Skopje Skopje ( , , ; mk, Скопје ; sq, Shkup) is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre. The territory of Skopje has been inhabited since at least 4000 BC; r ...

History

According to

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ethnographer

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 had 360 inhabitants who were

Christians Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρι ...

. While according to the Secretary of the

Bulgarian Exarchate The Bulgarian Exarchate ( bg, Българска екзархия, Balgarska ekzarhiya; tr, Bulgar Eksarhlığı) was the official name of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church before its autocephaly was recognized by the Ecumenical See in 1945 and th ...

Dimitar Mišev Dimitar ( bg, Димитър; Macedonian: Димитар) is a South Slavic masculine given name. It is widely found in Bulgaria and North Macedonia. Dimitar is derived from Saint Demetrius (280–306), alternate form of Demetrius. Containing the ...

("La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne"), in 1905 there were 640

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in the village, labelled by him as ''patriarchs'' (

Serbomans Serbomans (Serbo-Croatian and mk, србомани, srbomani; bg, сърбомани, sarbomani; ro, sârbomani) is a Bulgarian pejorative term used by Bulgarian nationalists for inhabitants in the region of Macedonia that claimed Serbian ethnic ...

). According to Bulgarian sources, the village was settled by

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in the period between 1689 and 1739. In his 1927 map of Macedonia,

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explorer

Leonhard Schultze-Jena Leonhard Schultze-Jena (full name: Leonhard Sigmund Friedrich Kuno Klaus Schultze-Jena; born May 28, 1872 in Jena; died March 28, 1955 in Marburg) was a German explorer, zoologist, and anthropologist known for his explorations of German Southwe ...

shows Čučer as a Serbian village. In 1929, in his map of Northwest Macedonia,

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scientist Afanasii Selishchev shows Čučer as a

village instead. The original name of the village was Čučer; ''Sandevo'' ("Sande's") was added after

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in honour of

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-Sande.

Demographics

The village had 518 inhabitants in 1961, of which 328 were

and 180 Macedonians. In 1994 the number decreased to 274 inhabitants, of which 234 were

and 35 Macedonians.Панов, Митко (1998). ''Енциклопедија на селата во Република Македонија''. p. 320 According to the 2002 census, Čučer-Sandevo had a population of 299 inhabitants, of whom 180 were

(60%), 117 Macedonians (39%), 1

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and 1 other.

Anthropology

According to ''Skopska Crna Gora'' (1971), the following families (or "brotherhoods") lived in Čučer. *Čučer **Kačaniklići (Качаниклићи). Four families. The ancestor of the Kačaniklić brotherhood in Čučer fled from Đurđev Dol in the nearby Kačanik Gorge (hence their surname), due to violence in ca. 1810 (during Ottoman rule). They have the ''

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'' (patron saint) of St. John. They derived their family name from their previous location. **Livrinići **Kajevići

Notable people

, partisan who participated in the resistance and National Hero of Yugoslavia

References

Sources

* Villages in Čučer-Sandevo Municipality Serb communities in North Macedonia {{ČučerSandevo-geo-stub