Zdunje (, , ) is a village in the municipality of Gostivar, North Macedonia.
History Zdunje is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 20 Christian households, 1 widow and 1 bachelor.Турски документи за историјата на македонскиот народ кн.4, Методија Соколоски, д-р Александар Стојановски, Скопје 1971
According to the 1467-68 Ottoman defter, Zdunje appears as having largely Christian Albanian anthroponomy. Due to Slavicisation, some families had a mixed Slav-Albanian anthroponomy - usually a Slavic first name and an Albanian last name or last names with Albanian patronyms and Slavic suffixes. The names are: Gjorgji Arbanas; Mill, son of Doksa; Daba, of his brother; Mano Arbanas (t. Arnaut); Ggjin Protogjer.
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village was inhabited by 300 Turks, 120 Muslim Albanians, and 65 Bulgarian Exarchists.Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 213. According to geographer Dimitri Mishev (D. M. Brancoff), in 1905, the town 64 Bulgarian Exarchists.Dimitri Mishev (D. M. Brancoff), La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne, p. 194
Demographics As of the 2021 census, Zdunje had 1,140 residents with the following ethnic composition:Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021 Albanians 730 Turks 532 Macedonians 77 Persons from whom data are taken from administrative sources 70 Others 1
According to the 2002 census, the village is multiethnical with a total of 2140 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. 86. Albanians 998 Turks 659 Macedonians 467 Romani 9 Serbs 1 Others 9
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