Zavoj

Zavoj (Macedonian: Завој) is a village in the municipality of Ohrid, North Macedonia. It used to be part of the former municipality of Kosel.

Zavoj Завој
Village
View of the village
Zavoj Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 41.183333°N 20.916667°E / 41.183333; 20.916667
Country	North Macedonia
Region	Southwestern
Municipality	Ohrid
Population  (2002)
• Total	12
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
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A small village, there are no shops or schools in Zavoj. There are about a hundred houses and it houses a church of Sv. Bogorodica (The Holy Mother of God) where thousands gather to the village to celebrate the Holy Day on 28 August every year.

Demographics

In the Ethnography of the Provinces of Adrianople, Monastir and Thessaloniki, published in Constantinople in 1878, Zavoj is listed as a village with 60 households and 170 Bulgarian inhabitants.^[1] According to the statistics of Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov from 1900, 280 inhabitants lived in Zavoj, all Bulgarian Exarchists.^[2]

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 12 inhabitants.^[3] Ethnic groups in the village include:^[3]

• Macedonians 12

Tribes in Zavoj

Founders: Cvetanovci (9 houses), Krstanovci (8 houses) and Tasevci (6 houses), all three tribes come from Old Zavoj ^[4]

References

1. Macedonia and Edirne: Population Statistics from 1873. Sofia, Macedonian Scientific Institute - Sofia, Macedonian Library № 33, 1995. ISBN 954-8187-21-3 . pp. 104-105.
2. Vasil Kanchov. "Macedonia. "Ethnography and statistics." Sofia, 1900, p. 252
3. Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 117.
4. Trifunoski, Jovan F. (1992). Ohrid-Struga area  : anthropogeographical studies . Belgrade: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. ISBN 8670251582. OCLC 27418468