Lazhani ( Maked. Lazhani ) is a village in the Republic of Macedonia , in the Dolneni community in the Pelagonian region of the country.
| Village | |
| Lazhani | |
|---|---|
| maced Lazhani | |
| A country |  North Macedonia |
| Statistical region | Pelagonian |
| Community | Value |
| History and geography | |
| Former names | Layai |
| Center height | 594 m |
| Timezone | UTC + 1 , in the summer UTC + 2 |
| Population | |
| Population | 1864 people ( 2002 ) |
| Digital identifiers | |
| Telephone code | (+389) 48 |
| Postcode | |
| Car code | PR |
The village is located in the Pelagonia basin in the Prilepsko Polye valley, northwest of the city of Prilep .
Content
History
In the 19th century, the village was a settlement in the Ottoman Empire ( Prilepskaya Kaza ), in 1873 in the “Ethnography of the Adrianople townships, the Monastery and Thessaloniki” , published in 1878 in Constantinople, 175 Muslims , 149 Bulgarians and 107 Gypsies inhabiting Layayan village [1] . In 1900, the following people lived here [2] : Christian Bulgarians - 120 people, Muslim Bulgarians ( Pomaks , Torbeshes [3] ) - 320 people. and Roma - 200 people. In 1905, 120 residents of the village of Lezhan were parishioners of the church of the Bulgarian Diocese [4] . On the ethnic map of northwestern Macedonia of 1929, given by Selishchev AM , Lazhani is designated as a village with a Bulgarian and Gypsy population [5] .
Population
According to the 2002 census [6], the population of the village is 1,864 inhabitants, of which
- Bosnians - 1054 people;
- Turks - 402 people;
- Macedonians - 278 people .;
- Albanians - 108 people;
- others - 22 people.
Socially Important Objects
In the village there is an eight-year school "them. Mirce Atsev ” [7] and ambulatory [8] .
Culture and Sports
The village holds a folk song festival “Golden Eye” [9] .
In Lazhan there is a football club "Sloga".
Notes
- “Macedonia and Odrinsko. Statistics on the population from 1873. ”Macedonian Scientific Institute, Sofia, 1995, p. 74-75.
- ↑ Vasil Konchov. “Macedonia. Ethnography and statistics. Sofia, 1900, p. 247. (Bulgarian)
- ↑ Bulgarians-Muslims of Macedonia (torbeshes and pomaks) - the head of the monograph Vasil Kanchov (1900) (Bulgarian)
- ↑ DMBrancoff. " ". Paris, 1905, pp.148-149. (fr.)
- ↑ Selishchev, Afanasy Matveyevich . “ Canopy and its Bulgarian population. Historical, ethnographic and dialectological essays of northwestern Macedonia. " Sofia, 1929.
- ↑ 2002 Census Results (Mac) , (English) , ( PDF )
- ↑ Education - The site of the community Doleny (Mac.)
- ↑ Health - The site of the community Doleny (Mac.)
- ↑ Culture - The site of the community Doleny (Mac.)