Delogoždi Explained

Delogoždi
Native Name:Делогодижди
Dollogozhdë
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:North Macedonia
Pushpin Map Caption:Location within North Macedonia
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1: Southwestern
Subdivision Type2:Municipality
Subdivision Name2: Struga
Elevation M:787
Population As Of:2021
Population Total:1,714
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Coordinates:41.2578°N 20.7228°W
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Area Code:+38946
Website:.
Blank Name:Car plates
Blank Info:SU

Delogoždi (Macedonian: Делогожди, Albanian: Dollogozhdë) is a village in the municipality of Struga, North Macedonia.

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 Poum (2.9 km). The village is located northwest of the city of Struga, 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 Ottoman Empire.[1]

According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov from 1900, Delogoždi had 730 inhabitants, all Albanians.[2]

According to the 1943 Albanian census, Delogoždi was inhabited by 1147 Muslim Albanians.[3]

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 2,920 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:[4]

As of the 2021 census, Delogoždi had 1,714 residents with the following ethnic composition:[5]

Notes and References

  1. Macedonia and Adrianople Population Statistics from 1873, Sofia, 1995, p. 104-105
  2. http://macedonia.kroraina.com/vk/index.html Vasil Kanchov. "Macedonia. "Ethnography and statistics." Sofia, 1900, p. 253
  3. http://pop-stat.mashke.org/alb-historic/1942-diber-tetove-ethnicrel-loc.htm
  4. Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 90.
  5. https://makstat.stat.gov.mk/PXWeb/pxweb/en/MakStat/MakStat__Popisi__Popis2021__NaselenieVkupno__PodatociNaselenie/T1503P21.px/table/tableViewLayout2/?rxid=cc8e0490-07b6-4002-adf4-9b4891b66655 Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021