Matejče | |
Native Name: | Матејче Mateç |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | North Macedonia |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within North Macedonia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Lipkovo |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 2,961 |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Coordinates: | 42.1256°N 21.5978°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Website: | . |
Blank Name: | Car plates |
Blank Info: | KU |
Matejče (mk|Матејче;) is a village in the municipality of Lipkovo, North Macedonia. The village is known for the Orthodox Monastery of the Most Holy Mother of God, in the Skopska Crna Gora, at a height of 1005 metres, which was built in the 14th century.
According to the statistics of the Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov from 1900, 400 inhabitants lived in the village of Matejče, of which 536 were Albanians, 52 Romani and 50 Bulgarians.[1]
According to the Secretary of the Bulgarian Exarchate Dimitar Mišev ("La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne"), in 1905 there were 104 Bulgarians in Matejče.[2]
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 3394 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:[3]
As of the 2021 census, Matejče had 2,961 residents with the following ethnic makeup:[4]