Krivolak | |
Native Name: | Криволак |
Coordinates: | 41.5267°N 22.1202°W |
Pushpin Map: | North Macedonia |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within North Macedonia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Vardar |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Negotino |
Population Total: | 1,163 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Blank Name: | Car plates |
Blank Info: | NE |
Blank1 Name: | Climate |
Blank1 Info: | Cfa |
Krivolak (Macedonian: Криволак) is a village in the municipality of Negotino, North Macedonia. It is located in the Povardarie wine-growing region, along the river Vardar. Krivolak is the place where the Battle of Krivolak between the Kingdom of Bulgaria and the French Third Republic took place during World War I.
According to the statistics of Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov from 1900, 725 inhabitants lived in Krivolak, 650 Muslim Bulgarians and 75 Christian Bulgarians.[1] On the 1927 ethnic map of Leonhard Schulze-Jena, the village is shown as a fully Muslim Bulgarian village.[2] As of the 2021 census, Krivolak had 1,163 residents with the following ethnic composition:[3]
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 1,021 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:[4]