Šemševo

Šemševo
Шемшево
Shemshovë
Village
Street in the village
Šemševo
Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 42°01′N 21°05′E / 42.017°N 21.083°E / 42.017; 21.083
Country North Macedonia
Region Polog
Municipality Jegunovce
Population
 (2021)
 • Total
1,532
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Car platesTE
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Šemševo (Macedonian: Шемшево, Albanian: Shemshovë) is a village in the municipality of Jegunovce, North Macedonia.

Demographics

Šemševo is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 45 Christian households, 3 bachelors and 7 widows.[1]

As of the 2021 census, Šemševo had 1,532 residents with the following ethnic composition:[2]

  • Albanians 1,393
  • Macedonians 116
  • Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 22
  • Others 1

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 1,737 inhabitants.[3] Ethnic groups in the village include:[3]

In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Šemševo was inhabited by 154 Muslim Albanians and 60 Оrthodox Bulgarians.[4]

Sports

Local football club KF Shemshova 1984 have played in the Macedonian Third League.

References

  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. ^ 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. 108.
  4. ^ Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 212.