Čelopek (, ) is a village in the municipality of Brvenica, North Macedonia.
History
medieval history Čelopek is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 121 Christian Albanian and Slavic households, 17 bachelors and 9 widows.Турски документи за историјата на македонскиот народ кн.4, Методија Соколоски, д-р Александар Стојановски, Скопје 1971
20th-century history In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Čelopek (Chelopeki) was inhabited by 1,000 Muslim Albanians and 520 Christian Macedonians.Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 212.
According to the 1942 Albanian census, Čelopek was inhabited by 1,858 Muslim Albanians, 100 Serbs and 710 Macedonians.http://pop-stat.mashke.org/alb-historic/1942-diber-tetove-ethnicrel-loc.htm
Demographics
As of the 2021 census, Čelopek had 4,459 residents with the following ethnic composition:Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021 Albanians 3,898 Macedonians 395 Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 157 Others 9
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 5,287 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village included:Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 75.
Albanians – 4,803 Macedonians – 463 Turks – 2 Serbs – 1 Others – 18
References
Notable people Ljube Boškoski - former Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Macedonia
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