Matka, Saraj

Village in Skopje, North Macedonia

Matka Матка Matkë
Village
41°58′N 21°17′E / 41.967°N 21.283°E / 41.967; 21.283
Country	North Macedonia
Region	Skopje
Municipality	Saraj
Population (2021)
• Total	466
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Car plates	SK
Website	.

Matka (Macedonian: Матка, Albanian: Matkë) is a village in the municipality of Saraj, North Macedonia.

History

In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Matka was inhabited by 120 Muslim Albanians and 60 Christian Bulgarians Albanians.^[1] In 1905 Dimitar Mishev Brancoff gathered statistics about the Christian population of Macedonia, in which the village of Matka appears as consisting of 56 Bulgarian Exarchists and 42 Christian Albanians.^[2]

Demographics

According to the 2021 census, the village had a total of 466 inhabitants.^[3] Ethnic groups in the village include:^[3]

Albanians 248
Macedonians 157
Bosniaks 5
Serbs 1
Others 55

Year	Macedonian	Albanian	Turks	Romani	Vlachs	Serbs	Bosniaks	Others	Total
2002	167	300	...	...	...	1	...	...	468
2021	157	248	...	...	...	1	5	55	466

References

^ Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 264.
^ D.M.Brancoff (1905). La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne. Paris. pp. 114.
^ ^a ^b Macedonian Census (2021), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2021