Jelovjane () is a village in the municipality of Bogovinje, North Macedonia.
History According to the Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov, in 1900 the village was inhabited by 950 Muslim Bulgarians.Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 212. According to Russian ethnographer Afanasiy Selishchev in 1929 the village had 141 houses with 725 Bulgarian inhabitants.Селищев, Афанасий. Полог и его болгарское население. Исторические, этнографические и диалектологические очерки северо-западной Македонии, София, 1929, стр. 23.
According to the German historian and geographer Wilfried Krallert, dividing the South Slavs in Yugoslav Macedonia on an ethnic basis in 1931 was impossible, and therefore everyone there was labeled by him as "Macedonian". Per his study Jelovjane was inhabited then by 650 "Macedonians".W. Krallert (1941), Volkstumskarte von Jugoslawien
According to the data gathered by the Serbian geographer and anthropologist Jovan Trifunoski, the inhabitants of the village are of Slavic Macedonian, Albanian, and one family of Turkish origin. Today, most of the inhabitants self-identify as Turks.
Demographics Jelovjane, along with Urvič is one of two Gorani villages located in North Macedonia. The inhabitants speak the Gora dialect of Eastern South Slavic. "Данашњи становници Урвича и Јеловјана на супротној, полошкој страни Шар-Планине, пореклом су Горани. Много су више утицале на исељавање Горана политичке промене, настале после 1912 године. Тада се скоро четвртина становништва иселила у Турску, за коју су се преко вере и дуге управе били интимно везали. Још једна миграција јаче је захватила Горане, али не у нашој земљи, него оне који су остали у границама Арбаније."
As of the 2021 census, Jelovjane had 283 residents with the following ethnic composition:Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021 Turks 173 Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 68 Macedonians 9 Albanians 8 Others 25
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 599 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 110.
Turks 539 Albanians 40 Bosniaks 8 Macedonians 5 Others 7
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