Zdunje

Zdunje is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 20 Christian households, 1 widow and 1 bachelor.^[1]

According to the 1467-68 Ottoman defter, Zdunje appears as having largely Christian Albanian anthroponomy. Due to Slavicisation, some families had a mixed Slav-Albanian anthroponomy - usually a Slavic first name and an Albanian last name or last names with Albanian patronyms and Slavic suffixes.^[2]

In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village was inhabited by 300 Turks, 120 Muslim Albanians, and 65 Bulgarian Exarchists.^[3] According to geographer Dimitri Mishev (D. M. Brancoff), in 1905, the town 64 Bulgarian Exarchists.^[4]

As of the 2021 census, Zdunje had 1,140 residents with the following ethnic composition:^[5]

• Albanians 730
• Turks 532
• Macedonians 77
• Persons from whom data are taken from administrative sources 70
• Others 1

According to the 2002 census, the village is multiethnical with a total of 2140 inhabitants.^[6] Ethnic groups in the village include:^[6]

• Albanians 998
• Turks 659
• Macedonians 467
• Romani 9
• Serbs 1
• Others 9