Carev Dvor
Village in Pelagonia, North Macedonia
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Carev Dvor (Macedonian: Царев Двор, meaning Emperor's Court; Turkish: Kayser Sarayi) is a village in Resen Municipality in North Macedonia, roughly 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the municipal centre of Resen.[1] It has 605 residents.[2]
Carev Dvor
Царев Двор | |
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Village | |
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  Carev Dvor Location within North Macedonia | |
| Coordinates: 41°02′35″N 21°0′26″E | |
| Country |  North Macedonia |
| Region |  Pelagonia |
| Municipality |  Resen |
| Population (2002) | |
• Total | 605 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Area code | +389 |
| Car plates | RE |
Demographics
Carev Dvor is inhabited by Orthodox Macedonians and Muslim Turks.[3] The total population of Carev Dvor has decreased more than half from the 1961 census to the most recent one in 2002. The village has also seen its proportion of Turkish residents drop significantly.[4]
| Ethnic group |
census 1961 | census 1971 | census 1981 | census 1991 | census 1994 | census 2002 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
| Macedonians | 951 | 72.9 | 836 | 72.6 | 875 | 71.0 | 814 | 76.3 | 612 | 86.4 | 520 | 86.0 |
| Albanians | 7 | 0.5 | 5 | 0.4 | 2 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Turks | 344 | 26.4 | 308 | 26.7 | 343 | 27.8 | 124 | 11.6 | 95 | 13.4 | 81 | 13.4 |
| Serbs | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.1 | 4 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| others | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.2 | 9 | 0.7 | 129 | 12.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 4 | 0.7 |
| Total | 1,303 | 1,152 | 1,233 | 1,067 | 708 | 605 | ||||||
Sports
The village is also home to FK Mladost football club, formerly of the First Macedonian Football League.
People from Carev Dvor
- Cvetko Uzunovski (1916 - 1993), communist and partizan[5]
- Kiril of Polog and Kumanovo (1934 - 2013), metropolitan of the Diocese of Polog and Kumanovo of the Macedonian Orthodox Church - Ohrid Archbishopric[6]