Zavoj Explained

Zavoj
Native Name:Завој
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:North Macedonia
Pushpin Label Position:right
Pushpin Map Caption:Location within North Macedonia
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1: Southwestern
Subdivision Type2:Municipality
Subdivision Name2: Ohrid
Population As Of:2002
Population Total:12
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Coordinates:41.1833°N 20.9167°W
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Website:.
Blank Name:Car plates

Zavoj (Macedonian: Завој) is a village in the municipality of Ohrid, North Macedonia. It used to be part of the former municipality of Kosel.

A small village, there are no shops or schools in Zavoj. There are about a hundred houses and it houses a church of Sv. Bogorodica (The Holy Mother of God) where thousands gather to the village to celebrate the Holy Day on 28 August every year.

Demographics

In the Ethnography of the Provinces of Adrianople, Monastir and Thessaloniki, published in Constantinople in 1878, Zavoj is listed as a village with 60 households and 170 Bulgarian inhabitants.[1] According to the statistics of Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov from 1900, 280 inhabitants lived in Zavoj, all Bulgarian Exarchists.[2]

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 12 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:[3]

Tribes in Zavoj

Founders: Cvetanovci (9 houses), Krstanovci (8 houses) and Tasevci (6 houses), all three tribes come from Old Zavoj [4]

Notes and References

  1. Macedonia and Edirne: Population Statistics from 1873. Sofia, Macedonian Scientific Institute - Sofia, Macedonian Library № 33, 1995. ISBN 954-8187-21-3 . pp. 104-105.
  2. http://macedonia.kroraina.com/vk/index.html Vasil Kanchov. "Macedonia. "Ethnography and statistics." Sofia, 1900, p. 252
  3. Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 117.
  4. Trifunoski, Jovan F. (1992). Ohrid-Struga area : anthropogeographical studies . Belgrade: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. ISBN 8670251582. OCLC 27418468