Centar Župa is a municipality in western Republic of Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia

Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...

. Centar Župa

Centar Župa

Centar Župa , Turkish: Merkez Jupa) is a village in Republic of Macedonia, in majority inhabited by Turks. It is the seat of the Centar Župa municipality....

is also the name of the village where the municipal seat is found. Centar Župa Municipality is part of the Southwestern Statistical Region

Southwestern statistical region

The Southwestern Statistical Region is one of eight arbitrary statistical regions in the Republic of Macedonia. Southwestern, located in the west and southwestern part of the country, borders Albania to the west...

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Geography

The municipality borders Struga Municipality

Struga municipality

Struga is a municipality in western Republic of Macedonia. Struga is also the name of the town where the municipal seat is found. Struga Municipality is part of the Southwestern Statistical Region.-Geography:...

 to the south, Debar Municipality

Debar municipality

Debar is a municipality in western Republic of Macedonia. Debar is also the name of the town where the municipal seat is found. Debar Municipality is part of the Southwestern Statistical Region.-Geography:...

 to the east, north and west, and Albania

Albania

Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...

 to the west.

Villages

The municipality consists of the following villages: Bajramovci, Balanci, Breštani, Broštica, Centar Župa

Centar Župa

Centar Župa , Turkish: Merkez Jupa) is a village in Republic of Macedonia, in majority inhabited by Turks. It is the seat of the Centar Župa municipality....

, Crno Boci, Dolgaš, Dolno Melničani, Elevci, Evla, Golem Papradnik, Gorenci, Gorno Melničani, Kočišta, Kodžadžik

Kodžadžik

Kodžadžik is a village in the Republic of Macedonia. It is located in the western part of the country in the Centar Župa Municipality.According to historians, the village was mentioned for the first time in 1385 and the name of the village means "Great Battle". It was known "Svetigrad" before...

, Mal Papradnik, Novak, Odžovci, Osolnica, Pareši, Pralenik, Vlasikji, Žitineni

Demographics

According to the last national census from 2002 this municipality has 6,519 inhabitants.

Ethnic groups in the municipality include:

• Turks
  Turkish people
  Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...
  
  : 5,226 (80.2%)
• Macedonians
  Macedonians (ethnic group)
  The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs: "... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness...
  
  : 814 (12.5%)
• Albanians
  Albanians
  Albanians are a nation and ethnic group native to Albania and neighbouring countries. They speak the Albanian language. More than half of all Albanians live in Albania and Kosovo...
  
  : 454 (7.0%)
• others: 25 (0.4%)