Leunovo (Macedonian: Леуново) is a village in the municipality of Mavrovo and Rostuša, Gostivar, North Macedonia.

Leunovo
Village
Леуново
Church in Leunovo
Church in Leunovo
Leunovo is located in North Macedonia
Leunovo
Leunovo
Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 41°39′48″N 20°47′50″E / 41.6632°N 20.7971°E / 41.6632; 20.7971
Country North Macedonia
Region Polog
Municipality Mavrovo and Rostuša
Population
 (2021)
 • Total31
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Car platesGV
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Demographics edit

In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village was inhabited by 900 Bulgarian Exarchists and 55 Muslim Albanians.[1] Kanchov notes the village as being bilingual in Albanian and Bulgarian, with the latter being the language spoken in the househould.[2] According to the 1929 ethnographic map by Russian Slavist Afanasy Selishchev, Leunovo was a mixed Bulgarian-Albanian village.[3]

Year[4] Macedonian Albanian Turks Romani Vlachs Serbs Bosniaks Others PWDTAS Total
1953 344 86 ... ... ... ... ... 6 ... 436
1961 194 53 16 ... ... ... ... 2 ... 265
1971 72 18 15 ... ... ... ... 1 ... 106
1981 38 9 ... ... ... ... ... 13 ... 60
1994 26 10 ... ... ... ... ... 4 ... 40
2002 6 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 6
2021 27 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 4 31

As of the 2021 census, Leunovo had 31 residents with the following ethnic composition:[5]

  • Macedonians 27
  • Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 4

References edit

  1. ^ Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 213.
  2. ^ Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 213.
  3. ^ Афанасий Селищев. „Полог и его болгарское население. Исторические, этнографические и диалектологические очерки северо-западной Македонии“. – София, 1929, стр. 26.
  4. ^ Sherafedin Kaso (2005). The settlements with Muslim population in Macedonia. Logos-A. p. 60. ISBN 978-9989-58-155-7.
  5. ^ Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021