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Rečane, Gostivar

Village in Polog, North Macedonia

Rečane Речане Reçan
Village
Airview of the village
41°45′N 20°50′E / 41.750°N 20.833°E / 41.750; 20.833
Country	North Macedonia
Region	Polog
Municipality	Gostivar
Population (2021)
• Total	683
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Car plates	GV
Website	.

Rečane (Macedonian: Речане, Albanian: Reçan) is a village in the municipality of Gostivar, North Macedonia.

Demographics

As of the 2021 census, Rečane had 683 residents with the following ethnic composition:^[1]

Albanians 664
Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 18
Macedonians 1

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 1054 inhabitants.^[2] Ethnic groups in the village include:^[2]

Albanians 1038
Others 16

According to the 1942 Albanian census, Rečane was inhabited by 1353 Muslim Albanians.^[3]

The village is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kırçova. The village had a total of 81 houses, excluding bachelors (mucerred).^[4]

Sports

Local football club KF Përparimi have played in the Macedonian Third League.

References

^ Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
^ ^a ^b Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 86.
^ http://pop-stat.mashke.org/alb-historic/1942-diber-tetove-ethnicrel-loc.htm
^ Qerim Dalipi. "NAHIJA E KËRÇOVËS SIPAS REGJISTRIMIT TË VITEVE 1467-1468 (Aspekte shoqërore)". Gjurmime Albanologjike - Seria e shkencave historike 47:29-48.