Velmevci () is a village in the municipality of Demir Hisar, North Macedonia. It used to be part of the former municipality of Sopotnica.
Demographics Velmevci is attested in the Ottoman defter of 1467/68. Тhe village had 15 households and 2 bachelors. The majority of the inhabitants attested bore typical Christian Slavic anthroponyms, while nearly a fifth of them bore Albanian or mixed Slavic-Albanian anthroponyms.
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Velmevci was inhabited by 800 Christian Bulgarians.Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics . Sofia. p. 236.
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 7 inhabitants, all of whom were ethnic Macedonians.Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion , The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 175.
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