Gostivar – City in the northwest of the Republic of Macedonia with 35,847 h. (2002). It lies in the Colline Plain of Upper Polog, in a space where significant traffic routes are interrupted. With Skopje, through Tetovo, it is connected to a highway that as a national road M-4, further continues for Kicevo and Ohrid. By Mr. Through Mavrovo and the Valley of Radika leads a regional road for Debar and Struga. D. is a significant station on the railway line Skopje-Kicevo. Topographically extends on the left side of r. Vardar at an altitude of 550 m. It covers a total area of 804 ha. The center of Gostivar The climate in the city is moderoContinental. The mean annual air temperature is 10.7 ° C. The main hydrographic object is the river Vardar and its source Vrutok, where the city is supplied with water. The first data indicate that he was initially a village settlement that was formed around the Gostivar Monastery. As such it is mentioned in a charter of Emperor Dushan from 1331-1340, stating that it is a village on the Great River (Vardar). Since then, until ⅹⅴⅰⅰ c. for Mr. little is known. In the following centuries, especially in ⅹⅰⅹ c., It developed as an economic center of Upper Polog. Then it grew into a grace with a mixed ethnic structure. The population consisted of Macedonians, Turks, Albanians, Roma and a small number of Vlachs. In the eighties of ⅹⅰⅹ c. It becomes a mider and starts to develop as an administrative center. That function has increased in 1900. when Miderslak was converted into Cadillac. It gradually settle Tetovo and Veles merchants and Prizren, Kicevski and Krusevski craftsmen forming the Gostivar bazaar. In addition to the Begovski and the Chinar neighborhood, the Caul Maalo, Batak Maalo, Debar Maalo and the new neighborhood. For the last 100 years, the population has increased almost ten times. As earlier, today the city is with mixed ethnic composition. In 2002 The number of Macedonians is 11,885 h. or they participate with 33.2%. Of minorities, the most common are Albanians and their number is 16,890 h. or 47.1%, followed by the Turks (4,559 h. or 12.7%), then the Roma (1,899 h. or 5.3%), Serbs (146 h or 0.4%), Bosniaks (34) , Vlachs (15), and others (419). Today Mr. is an administrative and commercial center of Upper after-log. It is the seat of a municipality that covers an area of 51,331 ha, there are 35 settlements with 81.042 h. From the industrial buildings in the city, more important are: “Silica” – a fireproof material factory, “marbles” – mines and industry for decorated stone, Gothex – Textile Factory, Industrial Slaughterhouse “Gorno Polog, etc. The surroundings are hydropower plants “Vrutok” and “Raven”. In the city there are three secondary schools, workers’ university, library, cinema and health center. Lit.: John F. Trifunoski, Gostivar, “messenger Geographic associations”, St. JJdia, Belgrade, 1947; Census of the population, households and apartments in the Republic of Macedonia, 2002, REC. Ⅹ, SSO, Skopje, 2004. Al. ST.
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