Žerovjane
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Žerovjane
Жеровјане Zherovjan | |
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Village | |
  Žerovjane Location within Republic of Macedonia | |
| Coordinates: 41°55′N 20°57′E / 41.917°N 20.950°E | |
| Country |  North Macedonia |
| Region |  Polog |
| Municipality |  Bogovinje |
| Population (2021) | |
• Total | 891 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Car plates | TE |
| Website | . |
Žerovjane (Macedonian: Жеровјане, Albanian: Zherovjan) is a village in the municipality of Bogovinje, North Macedonia.
Žerovjane is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 30 Christian households, 2 bachelors and 3 widows.[1]
According to the 1467-68 Ottoman defter, Žerovjane exhibits a majority of Orthodox Christian Slavic and a minority Albanian anthroponymy. Some families had a mixed Slav-Albanian anthroponomy.[2][3]
According to the 1942 Albanian census, Žerovjane was inhabited by 277 Muslim Albanians.[4]
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Bogovinje was inhabited by 60 Christian Bulgarians.[5]
