Sirkovo (Macedonian: Сирково) is a village in the municipality of Rosoman, North Macedonia.
Sirkovo
Сирково | |
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Village | |
 View of the village | |
  Sirkovo Location within North Macedonia | |
| Coordinates: 41°30′21″N 21°53′21″E / 41.505722°N 21.889118°E | |
| Country |  North Macedonia |
| Region |  Vardar |
| Municipality |  Rosoman |
| Population (2002) | |
| • Total | 603 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Website | . |
History edit
Sirkovo has a history over 550 years. The settlement is recorded as village and as "Sirkova" in the Ottoman detailed Tahrir Defter number 4 dating to 1478 (Hijri:881)[1] and as a village of the Köprülü kaza.[2]
Demographics edit
According to the statistics of the Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov from 1900, 1471 inhabitants lived in Sirkovo, 1400 Muslim Bulgarians, 60 Christian Bulgarians and 11 Romani.[3] On the 1927 ethnic map of Leonhard Schulze-Jena, the village is shown as a fully Muslim Bulgarian village.[4] According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 603 inhabitants.[5] Ethnic groups in the village include:[5]
- Macedonians 474
- Serbs 127
- Others 2
References edit
- ^ Özkılınç, Ahmet; Coşkun, Ali; Sivridağ, Abdullah; Yüzbaşıoğlu, Murat, eds. (2001). 370 Numaralı Muhâsebe-i Vilâyet-i Rûm-ili Defteri (937/1530) I (in Turkish). Ankara, Türkiye: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü. p. 40. ISBN 978-975-19-3292-1.
- ^ Ünal, Uğur; Budak, Mustafa; Bayram, Sabahattin; Yıldıztaş, Mümin (2013). Özkılınç, Ahmet; Coşkun, Ali; Sivridağ, Abdullah (eds.). Osmanlı Yer Adları: I - RUMELİ EYALETİ (1514-1550) (in Turkish). Ankara, Türkiye. p. 752. ISBN 9789751962386.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Vasil Kanchov. "Macedonia. "Ethnography and statistics." Sofia, 1900, p. 154
- ^ Schultze Jena, Leonhard. Makedonien: Landschafts- und Kulturbilder. Jena, Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1927
- ^ a b Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 166.