Sociology and Space, No. 83-86, 1984.
Preliminary communication
Small Villages in the Macedonia, 1971—1981
Fejzula Abdullai
Abstract
With industrialization and
urbanization in the Socialist
Republic of Macedonia, people
began to migrate from the village
to the town. This change resulted
in the depopulation of rural
settlements and an increase of the
number of small villages. In this
article the author gives a survey
of small villages of up to 50
inhabitants according to commune,
from the 1971 and the 1981
population censuses. In 1971 there
were 106 villages of this type in the
SR Macedonia with a total of 2,535
inhabitants and 697 households.
In 1981 there were almost twice
as many: 210 with a total of 5,186
inhabitants and 1,683 households.
Grouping villages according to
commune, the author shows that in
1971, 6 communes had over 11
small villages. In 1981, however,
only 2 communes had more than
11 small villages. The greatest
increase of small villages was in
the communes of Kičevo and Stip.
The depopulation of rural
settlements did not only result in
the increase of the number of
small villages, but also changed
the number and quality of their
inhabitants: the demographic
structure of the population changed,
and so did the average'number of
household members.
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119694
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Publication date:
11.12.1984.
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