Četirce () is a village in northeastern

North Macedonia North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo to the northwest and Serbia to the n ...

, in the

municipality of Kumanovo Kumanovo ( ; ) is a municipality located in the northern part of North Macedonia. ''Kumanovo'' is also the name of the city where the municipal seat is located. The Kumanovo Municipality is part of the Northeastern Statistical Region. Geography ...

. According to the 2002 census, it had 249 inhabitants.

Geography

The village is located in northernmost North Macedonia, close to the Serbian border (5 kilometres). To the nearest city, it is 10 kilometres north of

Kumanovo Kumanovo ( ; , sq-definite, Kumanova; also known by other #Etymology, alternative names) is the second-largest city in North Macedonia after the capital Skopje and the seat of Kumanovo Municipality, the List of municipalities in the Republic ...

. Četirce is situated in the historical region of Žegligovo, in the highland, on ca. 570 m above sea. Northeast of the village is the Rujen mountain. The cadastral area of Četirce borders

Gorno Konjare Gorno Konjare (, ) is a village in the municipality of Kumanovo, North Macedonia. Demographics According to the statistics of Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov from 1900 the settlement is recorded as Kojnare Gorno as having 224 inhabitants, al ...

to the south, Tabanovce to the west, Karabičane to the northwest, Suševo to the north, and Nikuljane to the east (in Staro Nagoričane).

History

In the 19th century, it was part of the Ottoman ''

kaza A kaza (, "judgment" or "jurisdiction") was an administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire, administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. It is also discussed in English under the names district, subdistrict, and juridical district. Kazas co ...

'' of

. The village supported the Kumanovo Uprising (January 20–May 20, 1878). In 1905, the village was divided between Serb Patriarchists (276 individuals) and

Bulgarian Exarchists Bulgarian millet () was an ethno-religious and linguistic community within the Ottoman Empire from the mid-19th to early 20th century. The semi-official term, was used by the Sultan for the first time in 1847, and was his tacit consent to a ...

(224 individuals). It had 500 inhabitants and two schools, one Bulgarian and one Serbian. There was Chetnik action there on 27 May 1904 in the Battle of Šuplji Kamen at Četirce, where voivode

Anđelko Aleksić Anđelko Aleksić ( sr-cyr, Анђелко Алексић; 1876 – Četirce, Ottoman Empire, 27 May 1904) was a Serbs in North Macedonia, Macedonian Serb Chetnik commander (''voivode''). He and Đorđe Cvetković led the first two armed bands of ...

and all his men (24) perished at the hand of the Turks and their Albanian vassals. For Aleksić's death and others, Stevan Simić, a teacher at the Serbian schools in

Manastir Bitola (; ) is a city in the southwestern part of North Macedonia. It is located in the southern part of the Pelagonia valley, surrounded by the Baba, Nidže, and Kajmakčalan mountain ranges, north of the Medžitlija-Níki border crossin ...

Pljevlja Pljevlja (, ) is a town located in the Northern Montenegro, Northern Region of Montenegro, situated along Ćehotina, Ćehotina river. The town lies at an altitude of . In the Middle Ages, Pljevlja had been a crossroad of the important commercial ...

Skoplje Skopje ( , ; ; , sq-definite, Shkupi) is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia. It lies in the northern part of the country, in the Skopje Valley along the Vardar River, and is the political, economic, and cultural center of t ...

and

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, accused "the local Serbs from

, who did not help this action, because they 'did not have a national organization (''nisu imali narodnu organizaciju'')'."

Demographics

According to the 2002 census, it had 249 inhabitants, the majority of whom declared as

Serbs The Serbs ( sr-Cyr, Срби, Srbi, ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to Southeastern Europe who share a common Serbian Cultural heritage, ancestry, Culture of Serbia, culture, History of Serbia, history, and Serbian lan ...

(86%), the rest as Macedonians (14%).cite journal, title=Macedonian census, year=2002, url=http://www.stat.gov.mk/publikacii/knigaX.pdf, page=179 The families are

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