Sasa () is a rural village in the Makedonska Kamenica Municipality, North Macedonia. It has a population of 501.
History The village and surrounding mines were set up by Transylvanian Saxons, which settled on the Balkans in late Middle Ages. The name Sasa originates from the traditional South Slavic name Sasi for a Saxons.
Vasil Kanchov's 1900 survey recorded 700 Bulgarian Christians and 30 Roma in the village. Later in 1905, Secretary of the Bulgarian Exarchate Dimitar Mishev (writing as "Brancoff") documented 552 Exarchist Bulgarians and six Roma in the village, with one primary school, two teachers, and 46 students.
Geography The village is situated in the northern mountainous region of the Makedonska Kamenica Municipality, near the border with Bulgaria, at elevations ranging from 700 to 1,340 meters.
Demographics
Ethnic groups The historical ethnic makeup of this village is as follows: EthnicityYear19531961197119811991199420022021Macedonians1,2221,1931,6071,3811,0311,190874418Albanians00200000Turks00500000Roma00000000Aromanians0——00000Serbs143711020Others39562000Total122612061656138810341190876501There are four "not mentioned" and seven "persons for whom the data has been obtained from administrative sources".
Sex The historical population of both sexes in this village is as follows: SexYear1953196119711981199119942002Male652672949719555635470Female574534707669479555406
Economy
The Sasa ore deposit near the village was discovered during exploration between 1954 and 1965. The surrounding village is populated by around 1000 civilians; most are lower class and since the reopening of the mine in the 1960s, much of the male population has become miners.
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