Delogoždi (, ) is a

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in the

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Struga Struga ( ; , sq-definite, Struga) is a town and popular tourist destination situated in the south-western region of North Macedonia, lying on the shore of Lake Ohrid. The town of Struga is the seat of Struga Municipality. Name The name Struga ...

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Geography

Delogoždi lies south of Mountain Karaorman in an altitude of 800 meters and the east borders with the villages Dzhepin (1.6 km) and Koroshishta (2.3 km), in the south with the villages Livada (2.8 km) and Biceva (3.7 km), to the southwest with the village of Novo Selo (3.1 km), to the west with the village of Dolno Tateshi (2.9 km), and to the north with the village of

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(2.9 km). The village is located northwest of the city of

, at a distance of 11 km.

Demographics

At the end of the 19th century, Delogoždi was an Albanian village, part of the Struga nahia in the Ohrid kaza of the

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. According to the statistics of

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from 1900, Delogoždi had 730 inhabitants, all

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. According to the 1943

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census, Delogoždi was inhabited by 1147 Muslim

. According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 2,920 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:Macedonian Census (2002)
''Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion''
The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 90. *

2,906 *

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2 *

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1 *Others 11 As of the 2021 census, Delogoždi had 1,714 residents with the following ethnic composition: *Albanians 1,668 *Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 46

Notable people

* Nuri Mazari, known as Komandant Struga, NLA commander

References

External links

Villages in Struga Municipality Albanian communities in North Macedonia {{Struga-geo-stub