Rogačevo is a small village located in the north-western part of
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 ...
, 26 km away from the city of
Tetovo
Tetovo (, ; , sq-definite, Tetova) is a city in the northwestern part of North Macedonia, built on the foothills of Šar Mountain and divided by the Pena (river), Pena River. The municipality of Tetovo covers an area of at above sea level, wit ...
and 1 km away from the village of
Jažince, the border crossing point with
Kosovo
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. It used to be part of the former municipality of
Vratnica.
Žerovjane is Rogačevo in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of
Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 59 Christian households and 4 bachelors.
Rogacevo is situated in the upper part of the
Polog plain, at the foothills of the northern part of the
Šar Mountains, under the
Luboten peak. Around a hundred houses are present with about 500 people living here. Since the time the village was founded, it has been Christian Orthodox.
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 347 inhabitants.
[Macedonian Census (2002)]
''Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion''
The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 245.
In statistics gathered by
Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Rogačevo was inhabited by 210 Orthodox Bulgarians.
[Vasil Kanchov (1900). ]
Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics
'. Sofia. p. 264.
References
External links
Rogacevo ... my home- website about Rogacevo
Villages in Jegunovce Municipality
Šar Mountains
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