Bekirlija
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Bekirlija Bekirlija | |
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Village | |
 Ruins of Bekirlija | |
  Bekirlija Location within North Macedonia | |
| Coordinates: 41°40′48″N 21°56′27″E / 41.68000°N 21.94083°E | |
| Country |  North Macedonia |
| Region |  Vardar |
| Municipality |  Lozovo |
| Population (2021) | |
| • Total | 1 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Website | . |
Bekirlija is a village in North Macedonia in the Lozovo Municipality. It is the setting of the Academy Award-nominated documentary film Honeyland, which depicts it as an abandoned village with no electricity and inhabited by one, and then two families.
Demographics[edit]
The Yugoslav census of 1953 recorded 161 people of whom 148 were Turks, 71 Macedonians and 12 others. The 1961 Yugoslav census recorded 116 people of whom 77 were Albanians, 6 Turks, 2 Bosniaks, 1 Macedonians and 30 others. The 1971 census recorded 70 people of whom 33 were Albanians, 15 Turks, 8 Bosniaks and 14 others. The 1981 Yugoslav census recorded 25 people, all Turks. The Macedonian census of 1994 recorded 15 people, all Turks. The Macedonian census of 2002 recorded 5 people, all Turks.[1]
As of the 2021 census, Bekirloja had 1 resident with the following ethnic composition:[2]
- Turks 1
References[edit]
- ^ Sherafedin Kaso (2005). The settlements with Muslim population in Macedonia. Logos-A. p. 29. ISBN 978-9989-58-155-7.
- ^ Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
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