Sirkovo

Sirkovo (Macedonian: Сирково) is a village in the municipality of Rosoman, North Macedonia.

Sirkovo Сирково
Village
View of the village
Sirkovo Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 41.505722°N 21.889118°E / 41.505722; 21.889118
Country	North Macedonia
Region	Vardar
Municipality	Rosoman
Population  (2002)
• Total	603
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	.

History

Sirkovo has a history over 550 years. The settlement is recorded as village and as "Sirkova" in the Ottoman detailed Tahrir Defter number 4 dating to 1478 (Hijri:881)^[1] and as a village of the Köprülü kaza.^[2]

Demographics

According to the statistics of the Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov from 1900, 1471 inhabitants lived in Sirkovo, 1400 Muslim Bulgarians, 60 Christian Bulgarians and 11 Romani.^[3] On the 1927 ethnic map of Leonhard Schulze-Jena, the village is shown as a fully Muslim Bulgarian village.^[4] According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 603 inhabitants.^[5] Ethnic groups in the village include:^[5]

• Macedonians 474
• Serbs 127
• Others 2

References

1. Özkılınç, Ahmet; Coşkun, Ali; Sivridağ, Abdullah; Yüzbaşıoğlu, Murat, eds. (2001). 370 Numaralı Muhâsebe-i Vilâyet-i Rûm-ili Defteri (937/1530) I (in Turkish). Ankara, Türkiye: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü. p. 40. ISBN 978-975-19-3292-1.
2. Ünal, Uğur; Budak, Mustafa; Bayram, Sabahattin; Yıldıztaş, Mümin (2013). Özkılınç, Ahmet; Coşkun, Ali; Sivridağ, Abdullah (eds.). Osmanlı Yer Adları: I - RUMELİ EYALETİ (1514-1550) (in Turkish). Ankara, Türkiye. p. 752. ISBN 9789751962386.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
3. Vasil Kanchov. "Macedonia. "Ethnography and statistics." Sofia, 1900, p. 154
4. Schultze Jena, Leonhard. Makedonien: Landschafts- und Kulturbilder. Jena, Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1927
5. Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 166.