Bogovinje

{{Infobox settlement   | name = Bogovinje | official_name = | native_name = Боговиње<br>Bogovinë | nickname = | settlement_type = Village | total_type =  | motto =  | image_skyline = Bogovinje 01.JPG | imagesize = | image_caption = View of the village | image_flag = | flag_size = | image_seal = | seal_size = | image_shield = | shield_size = | image_blank_emblem = | blank_emblem_type = | blank_emblem_size = | image_map = | mapsize = | map_caption = | pushpin_map = North Macedonia | pushpin_label_position =  | pushpin_map_caption = Location within North Macedonia | pushpin_mapsize =  | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{NMK}} | subdivision_type1 = Region | subdivision_name1 = 13px Polog | subdivision_type2 = Municipality | subdivision_name2 = 13px Bogovinje | seat_type = | seat = | parts_type = | parts_style =  | parts =  | p1 = | p2 =  | government_footnotes = | government_type = | leader_title = mayor | leader_name = Feti Abazi (VLEN) | leader_title1 =  | leader_name1 = | established_title =  | established_date =  | area_magnitude = | unit_pref =  | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 =  | area_land_km2 =  | area_water_km2 = | area_total_sq_mi = | area_land_sq_mi = | area_water_sq_mi = | area_water_percent =  | elevation_footnotes =  | elevation_m = 503 | elevation_ft = | elevation_max_m = | elevation_max_ft = | elevation_min_m = | elevation_min_ft =  | population_as_of = 2021 | population_footnotes = | population_note = | population_total = 5,239 | population_density_km2 =  | population_density_sq_mi =  | municipality president =  | timezone = CET | utc_offset = +1 | timezone_DST = CEST | utc_offset_DST = +2 | coor_type =  | coordinates = {{coord|41|55|24|N|20|54|48|E|region:MK|display=inline,title}} | postal_code_type = Postal code | postal_code = 1220 | area_code = | website = | blank_name_sec1 = Vehicle registration | blank_info_sec1 = TE | blank1_name = | blank1_info = | footnotes = }} '''Bogovinje''' ({{langx|mk|{{Audio|Mk-Bogovinje.ogg|Боговиње}}}}; {{langx|sq|Bogovinë}}) is a village in the municipality of Bogovinje, North Macedonia. It is a seat of the Bogovinje municipality. ==History== Bogovinje is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 42 Christian households, 2 bachelors and 1 widow.<ref>Турски документи за историјата на македонскиот народ кн.4, Методија Соколоски, д-р Александар Стојановски, Скопје 1971</ref>

According to the 1467-68 Ottoman defter, Bogovinje exhibits a majority Orthodox Christian Slavic anthroponomy, alongside a minority of names belonging to the Albanian onomastic sphere.<ref>{{cite web | last1 = Sokoloski | first1 = Metodija| last2 = Stojanovski | first2 = Aleksandar| title = ТУРСКИ ДОКУМЕНТИ ЗА ИСТОРИЈАТА НА МАКЕДОНСКИОТ НАРОД - ОПШИРЕН ПОПИСЕН ДЕФТЕР (1467-1468 година) |url=https://www.google.mk/books/edition/Documents_turcs_sur_l_histoire_du_peuple/BI5pAAAAMAAJ/ |quote = Bogovina: Jovan, son of Pero; Dimitri, his son; Bogdan, son of Gliče(Iglič); Tonke, son of Gliče; Gjuro, son of Gliče; Nikola, prišelec(newcomer); Bogdan, son of Kovač; Ratče, son of Kovač; Nikola, son of Kovač; Bogdan, son of Kojo; Stanče, son of Dojčin; Dimitri, son of Stanče; Jovan Kičevac; Bogdan, son of Stanislav; Bogdan, son of Trajko (or Ivanko)... | publisher = Државен архив на Македонија|year = 1971 | issue=4 | page=312-313}}</ref>

==Sports== The village also has a stadium home to FK Drita called Stadion Bogovinje.

==Demographics== As of the 2021 census, Bogovinje had 5,239 residents with the following ethnic composition:<ref>[https://makstat.stat.gov.mk/PXWeb/pxweb/en/MakStat/MakStat__Popisi__Popis2021__NaselenieVkupno__PodatociNaselenie/T1503P21.px/table/tableViewLayout2/?rxid=cc8e0490-07b6-4002-adf4-9b4891b66655 Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021]</ref> *Albanians 4,829 *Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 405 *Macedonians 1 *Others 4

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 6,328 inhabitants.<ref name = Statisticaloffice/> Ethnic groups in the village include:<ref name = Statisticaloffice>Macedonian Census (2002), [http://www.stat.gov.mk/publikacii/knigaX.pdf ''Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion''], The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 72.</ref>

*Albanians 6,273 *Macedonians 1 *Romani 5 *Others 49

According to the 1942 Albanian census, Bogovinje was inhabited by 2,023 Muslim Albanians.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ethnic/religious composition of Dibër and Tetovë prefectures|last=Bespyatov|first=Tim|url=http://pop-stat.mashke.org/alb-historic/1942-diber-tetove-ethnicrel-loc.htm|access-date=11 December 2024}}</ref>

According to the Bulgarian scientific expedition during the First World War, Bogovinje was inhabited by 1,188 Pomaks.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%B2_%D0%9C/A7PiAAAAMAAJ|title=Научна експедиция в Македония и Поморавието 1916|author=Petar Hristov Petrov |year=1993 |isbn=9789540702551 |page=257 |publisher=Военноизд-ки комплекс "Св. Георги Победоносец"}}</ref>

According to the Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Bogovinje was inhabited by 600 Muslim Albanians.<ref>Vasil Kanchov (1900). ''[http://www.promacedonia.org/vk/vk_2_42.htm Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics]''. Sofia. p. 264.</ref>

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Category:Villages in Bogovinje Municipality Category:Albanian communities in North Macedonia