Elevci

Elevci (, ) is a village in the municipality of Centar Župa, North Macedonia.

Demographics

According to Ottoman tahrir defters from the 1520s, 16 villages (all present-day Centar Župa villages) associated with Kala-i Kodžadžik had no Muslim population. However, the Muslim population increased in subsequent years. This was likely part of the Islamization of Macedonia under Turkish rule.

The village is inhabited by a Turkish speaking population consisting of Torbeši. According to the statistics of Jovan Hadži-Vasiljević "Muslims of Our Blood in Southern Serbia" (Muslimani naše krvi u Južnoj Srbiji. Beograd 1924) from 1924, the Muslim inhabitants of the village of Elevci were Torbeši linguistically and culturally Turkified. In a survey conducted on immigrants from Elevci and Kodžadžik villages of Saruhanlı district of Manisa Province of Turkey, it confirmed that Elevci and Kodžadžik villages are Torbeši villages.

According to the 1942 Albanian census, Gorno Elevci was inhabited by 596 Muslim Albanians and 45 Bulgarians.

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 260 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:

• TorbeÅ¡i 260

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