Vodovrati (Macedonian: Водоврати) is a village in the municipality of Gradsko, North Macedonia.

Vodovrati
Village
Водоврати
Village peasants in 1916
Village peasants in 1916
Vodovrati is located in North Macedonia
Vodovrati
Vodovrati
Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 41°35′N 21°53′E / 41.583°N 21.883°E / 41.583; 21.883
Country North Macedonia
Region Vardar
MunicipalityGradsko
Population
 (2021)
 • Total361
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Car platesVE
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History edit

Vodovrati has a history over 500 years. The settlement is recorded as "Vodovrad" in the Ottoman Tahrir Defter number 370 dating to 1530 and as a village of the Köprülü kaza.[1]

Demographics edit

On the 1927 ethnic map of Leonhard Schulze-Jena, the village is written as Vodovrat and as a fully Muslim Bulgarian village.[2]

As of the 2021 census, Vodovrati had 361 residents with the following ethnic composition:[3]

  • Bosniaks 131
  • Roma 101
  • Macedonians 63
  • Turks 24
  • Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 23
  • Others 10
  • Albanians 9

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 379 inhabitants.[4] Ethnic groups in the village include:[4]

References edit

  1. ^ Ünal, Uğur; Budak, Mustafa; Bayram, Sabahattin; Yıldıztaş, Mümin (2013). Özkılınç, Ahmet; Coşkun, Ali; Sivridağ, Abdullah (eds.). Osmanlı Yer Adları: I - RUMELİ EYALETİ (1514-1550) (in Turkish). Ankara, Türkiye: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü. p. 838. ISBN 9789751962386.
  2. ^ Schultze Jena, Leonhard. Makedonien: Landschafts- und Kulturbilder. Jena, Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1927
  3. ^ Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
  4. ^ a b Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 87.