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Kozjak, Resen

Village in Pelagonia, North Macedonia

Kozjak Козјак Kozyak Kojzak
Village
Kozjak
41°03′30″N 21°02′32″E / 41.05833°N 21.04222°E / 41.05833; 21.04222
Country	North Macedonia
Region	Pelagonia
Municipality	Resen
Population (2021)
• Total	85
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code	+389
Car plates	RE

Kozjak (Macedonian: Козјак; Turkish: Kozyak; Albanian: Kojzaku) is a village in the Resen Municipality of the Republic of North Macedonia. It has 117 residents.^[1]

Demographics

Kozjak is inhabited by a Turkish majority and a small number of Albanians.^[2] It is one of two villages with a Turkish majority, the other being Lavci.^[3]

Ethnic group	census 1961		census 1971		census 1981		census 1991		census 1994		census 2002		census 2021
Ethnic group	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Macedonians	0	0.0	0	0.0	5	1.3	1	0.4	1	0.8	0	0.0	1	1.2
Albanians	2	0.7	10	2.8	7	1.8	8	2.9	8	6.7	11	9.4	8	9.4
Turks	297	99.3	342	96.9	337	85.1	159	57.8	111	92.5	106	90.6	74	87.1
others	0	0.0	1	0.3	47	11.9	107	38.9	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources													2	2.4
Total	299		353		396		275		120		117		85

Gallery

Sign hailing entrance on road into Kozjak
Architecture of Kozjak
Centuries-old plane tree (now dead) in village centre
Architecture of Kozjak
Architecture of Kozjak
Mosque of Kozjak
Inside of Kozjak mosque
Muslim cemetery of Kozjak
Water fountain of Kozjak
Kozjak river
Fields of Kozjak
Makazi, a road intersection connecting Resen with Bitola located within Kozjak village boundaries

References

^ "Municipality of Resen". Archived from the original on 2018-08-31. Retrieved 2013-08-27.
^ Sugarman, Jane (1997). Engendering song: Singing and subjectivity at Prespa Albanian weddings. University of Chicago Press. pp. 9–11. ISBN 9780226779720.
^ Censuses of population 1948–2002 Archived 2013-10-14 at the Wayback Machine