Kumanovo – city in northern RM with 78.602 h. (2002). It is located in the middle part of the Kumanovo Pole (Zerogigo), on both sides of Kumanovo River, at an altitude of about 330 m. It covers an area of 1886 ha. It has a moderate-continental climate with an average annual air temperature of 11.8 ° C and an average of 543 mm precipitation. It is a significant traffic node in the northern part of the Republic of Macedonia. It leads the international road e-75 and international railway line, which connect to the north with the valley of Morav, and to the south with Vardar valley. Contemporary road leads to the east and connects it with Kriva Palanka and Sofia, and such a road exists towards the southeast to Sveti Nikole and Stip. As a settlement is mentioned still in ⅹⅳ c. The name most precisely comes from the Kumani tribe, came from the Caucasus (the Koma River), towards the end of the ⅹ-XI c. As a city settlement began to develop in ⅹⅴⅰⅰ c. According to the description of Evliya Celebija of 1660. There were 600 Kucumanovo, Mosque, Tequia, Medresa, An, Amam and more stores. In the Avropouric War (1689), Karpos was proclaimed “King of Kumanovo”. After bloody suppression of the Under the Turks, the number of the population has dropped significantly. S “By the end of ⅹⅴⅰⅰⅰ c. It had predominantly agrarian physiognomy with about 300 houses. A. Buy noted that in K. There are about 3,000 h. (1836), and it was known as a rich commodity. In the development of the city significant influence, the construction of the state Jade Skopje-Kumanovo-Vranje in the seventh decade of ⅹⅰⅹ c. And especially the commissioning of the Moravascar Railway (1888). Then K. It became a significant migration center, there are Greeks from Ioannina and Vlachs from Krushevo, and one quarter is called Veles, since more than the families here were come from Veles. The city intensively begins to develop crafts and trade, so that at the beginning of ⅹⅹ c. The population increased to 14,530 h. Of these, 7,700 were Macedonians, 5,800 Turks, 600 Albanians, 350 Gypsies, 50 Vlachs and 30 Jews. In the period between the two world wars Kumanovo did not progress a lot, so in 1931. His population counted 16,984 h. The city accelerated begins to develop even in the years after the liberation. In the middle of the last century (1953) the population numbered 23,339 h., And at the beginning of ⅹⅺ c. It increased to 78.602 h. Of them 49,198 h. They were Macedonians, 18,825 Albanians, 5,394 Serbs, 4,212 Roma, 256 Turks, 108 Vlachs and 609 were declared others. Today K. It is a municipality that covers an area of 50,948 ha, there are 48 settlements with 105,484 h. The city belongs among the leading economic centers in the Republic. The most developed activity is the industry: the machinery, textile, leather and tobacco. In the wider surroundings of the city, agriculture has been significantly developed. There is a National Museum, a memorial museum “Hristijan Todorovski Karpos”, an art gallery, a memorial ossuary of the NOB, and in Kumanovo, the monastery “Matejce” above the village. Matejce, the monastery “Krapino” near the village. Orah, the Church “St. George “in the village. Staro Nagorichane, the monument of ASNOM in the village. Pelince, etc. In the city there is a faculty institution, gymnasium and two secondary vocational schools, then a health center, a home of culture, a city-clock library and other institutions in the field of culture and sports. Lit.: Atanasije Uroseva, Kumanovo, “Annual Proceedings of FF”, REC. Ⅱ, Skopje, 1949; Census of the population, households and apartments in the Republic of Macedonia 2002, REC. Ⅹ, DSH, Skopje, 2004. Al. ST.
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