Kopance
Village in Polog, North Macedonia
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Kopance (Macedonian: Копанце, Albanian: Kopancë) is a village in the municipality of Jegunovce, North Macedonia.
Kopance
Копанце Kopanicë | |
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Village | |
View of the village | |
  Kopance Location within North Macedonia | |
| Coordinates: 42°03′N 21°08′E | |
| Country |  North Macedonia |
| Region |  Polog |
| Municipality |  Jegunovce |
| Population (2021) | |
• Total | 844 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Car plates | TE |
| Website | . |
Demographics
Kopance is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 99 Christian households, 6 bachelors and 7 widows.[1]
As of the 2021 census, Kopance had 844 residents with the following ethnic composition:[2]
- Albanians 548
- Macedonians 196
- Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 100
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 1,059 inhabitants.[3] Ethnic groups in the village include:[3]
- Albanians 752
- Macedonians 300
- Serbs 4
- Others 3
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Kopance (Kopanica) was inhabited by 100 Christian Bulgarians and 70 Muslim Albanians.[4]
