Umovo Explained

Umovo
Official Name:Умово
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:North Macedonia
Pushpin Map Caption:Location within North Macedonia
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1: Skopje
Subdivision Type2:Municipality
Subdivision Name2: Studeničani
Population As Of:2002
Population Total:0
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Coordinates:41.8667°N 47°W
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Website:.
Blank Name:Car plates
Blank Info:SK

Umovo (Macedonian: Умово) is an uninhabited village in the municipality of Studeničani, North Macedonia.

History

During the great migration movements in the region of Macedonia at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, Slavic-speaking Muslims left the Debar area for the central regions of Macedonia and established villages such as Umovo located in the Skopje area.

Demographics

On the 1927 ethnic map of Leonhard Schulze-Jena, the village is shown as an Albanian village.[1]

The village when inhabited in past times had a Torbeš population.[2] [3]

The Yugoslav census of 1953 recorded 825 people of whom 815 were Turks, 6 Macedonians and 4 others. The 1961 Yugoslav census recorded 64 people, all Turks. The 1971 census recorded 17 people, all Turks. The 1981 Yugoslav census was the last to record any people as residing in the village which contained 35 inhabitants, all Turks.[4] According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 0 inhabitants.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Schultze Jena, Leonhard. Makedonien: Landschafts- und Kulturbilder. Jena, Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1927
  2. Book: Vidoeski, Božidar. Dijalektite na makedonskiot jazik. Vol. 1. 1998. Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite. 9789989649509. p. 126. "Еден дел од торбешката група, кои на крајот на XVII век и во почетокот на XVIII-иот, во времето на големите миграциони движења во Македонија, ја напуштило старата територија (Дебарско) и се преселило во централните области на Македонија. Така се формирале шет торбешки села во Скопско (Пагаруша, Д. Количани, Држилово, Цветово, Елово, Умово) и две Велешко (Г. Врановци и Мелница)."
  3. Book: Idrizi, Xhemaludin. Mikrotoponimia e Karshikës së Shkupit [Microtoponyms of Skopje's Karshiaka region|year=2003|location=Skopje|publisher=Interdiskont|url=https://www.academia.edu/13899777|isbn=9989-815-37-2|pages=17, 50].
  4. Book: Sherafedin Kaso. The settlements with Muslim population in Macedonia. 2005. Logos-A. 978-9989-58-155-7. 345.
  5. Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 184.