Radiovce (Macedonian: Радиовце, Macedonian pronunciation: [raˈdiɔftsɛ]; Albanian: Radovec) is a village in Brvenica Municipality near the town of Tetovo in North Macedonia.

Radiovce
Радиовце
Radovec
Village
Radiovce is located in North Macedonia
Radiovce
Radiovce
Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 42°00′N 20°58′E / 42.000°N 20.967°E / 42.000; 20.967
Country North Macedonia
Region Polog
Municipality Brvenica
Population
 (2021)
  Rakari
885
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
1200
Area code+389 044
Car platesTE

Population and demographics

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Radiovce is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 20 Christian households and 3 widows.[1]

As of the 2021 census, Radiovce had 885 residents with the following ethnic composition:[2]

  • Albanians 541
  • Macedonians 330
  • Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 14

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 1049 inhabitants.[3] Ethnic groups in the village include:[3]

According to the 1942 Albanian census, Radiovce was inhabited by 317 Serbs, 5 Bulgarians and 148 Muslim Albanians.[4]

In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Radiovce (Radiovci) was inhabited by 150 Christian Bulgarians.[5]

References

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  1. Турски документи за историјата на македонскиот народ кн.4, Методија Соколоски, д-р Александар Стојановски, Скопје 1971
  2. Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
  3. 1 2 Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 75.
  4. "Ethnic/Religious composition of Dibër and Tetovë prefectures".
  5. Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 212.
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