Rogačevo

Village in Polog, North Macedonia

42°09′24″N 21°09′25″E / 42.1566267°N 21.1570716°E / 42.1566267; 21.1570716Country

North MacedoniaRegion

PologMunicipality

JegunovcePopulation

(2002)

• Total347Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Car platesTEWebsite.

Rogačevo is a small village located in the north-western part of North Macedonia, 26 km away from the city of Tetovo and 1 km away from the village of Jažince, the border crossing point with Kosovo. It used to be part of the former municipality of Vratnica.

Rogacevo is situated in the upper part of the Polog plain, at the foothills of the northern part of the Šar Mountains, under the Luboten peak. Around a hundred houses are present with about 500 people living here. Since the time the village was founded, it has been Christian Orthodox.

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 347 inhabitants.^[1]

In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Rogačevo was inhabited by 210 Orthodox Bulgarians.^[2]

References

^ Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 245.
^ Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 264.