Turks in the Republic of Macedonia – ethnic community in the Republic of Macedonia. After the Maric Battle (1371) Macedonia gradually fell under the Ottoman rule (1371-1912) and started the process of settlement of Turkish population. With this, the ethnic map of Macedonia notes changes, but not substantive changes. Interior migration processes (withdrawal of the Macedonian population from the lowlands in the mountains), the processes of Ottoman colonization (city-sky and village – Konjari, Jurus), and later, Muslim population came from Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the five-liter Ottoman rule in Macedonia, the Turkish population became “more numerous. On the eve of the Balkan wars in Macedonia, OK lived. 500,000 Turks, which was 22.14% of the overall population. After the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) and after the First World War (1914-1918), the number of Turkish ethnic population began to decline. After the Greek-Turkish war (1919-1922) and the Lozanna Peace Accord (1923), the Turkish and other Muslim population from the Aegean part of Macedonia (350,000) was expelled in Turkey. 226,000 Turks continued to live in Vardar and Pirin part of Macedonia. The reduction of the number of Turkish population continued after the Second World War and Vardar part of Macedonia, when many Turks moved to Turkey. Due to order factors (political, religious, cultural, economic) in 1954. From the NRM / SRM moved to Turkey 17,396 ethnic Turks, in 1955 – 38.045, 1957 – 27.432, 1958 – 13.224 or a total of 127,000 Turks, including a small number of Albanians. The emigration of the Turkish minority contributes seriously to reduce the ethnic number of the Turks in the NRM / SRM. In 1953 In the NRM Journey of 203,938 ethnic Turks, accounting for 15.6% of the overall population, and in 2002. Their number decreases to 77,959 Turks (along with part of Islamized Macedonians), or 3.85% of the population in the Republic of Macedonia. Today, the largest number of declared Turks live in Skopje (8,595), Centar Zupa (5,226), Gostivar (7,991), Plasnica (4,446), Radovis (4,061), Studenicani (3,285), Vrapciste (3,134), Mavrovo and Rostushe (2,680). The percentage Turkish ethnic community is most numerous in two municipalities (Centar Zupa and Plasnica), but they are almost all Islamized Macedonians, with Macedonian domestic language. The Turkish minority, with the status of ethnic community in the Constitution, are guaranteed national rights. After World War II (1944), 55 primary and secondary schools with Turkish language, with 12,493 students functioned in the NRM / SRM. In the academic year 2005/06, due to the great migration of the Turkish population in Turkey, the number of schools and the number of students decreases. Now, in the Republic of Macedonia, 60 primary schools in Turkish language with 6,972 students and one private college (“Yachya Kemal”) are operating. The Turkish language is broadcast programs of the State MRTV, newspapers (“Birik”, “Vardar”, the weekly “Yenn Balkans”, Zaman, the children’s magazine, and the Turkish theater works. Turkish folklore traditions foster and various cultural societies (“Yeni Jol”, Tos, Lerinsky, sentenced to death and publicly hanged on the AT-market in Bitola. The Dolnotkan village of Zerijnica Albanian-Turkish Theater in Skopje “Gkenjen Hayat” and “Kardeshle” “). They also have their own holiday (December 21 – day of education). Two Turkish ethnic parties work in the political life of the Republic of Macedonia: “The Democratic Party of Turks” (DPT) and “Turkish Party” (PDT). Lit.: Vasil Kínchov, Macedonia. Geographs® and Statistics, Sophie®, 1900; Statistical Office of SR Macedonia. Census of the population, households and apartments, 1981, Skopje, 1984; Statistical Office of R. Macedonia. Census of the population since 1994, Skopje, 1997; Statistical Office of R. Macedonia. Census of the population, households and apartments in the Republic of Macedonia. Macedonia, Skopje, 2004; Dr. Stoyan Acisovski, ethnic changes in Macedonia (1913-1995), Skopje, 2000; Dr. Stojan Acisovski – PhD Irena attitudes-Remedy, minorities in the Balkans (ⅹⅹ century), Skopje, 2004. St. KIS. Drying of the patch tobacco
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