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Region
  
Area code(s)
  
+389 02

Elevation
  
447 m

Mayor
  
Jovan Pejkovski

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Car plates
  
SK

Local time
  
Sunday 11:03 AM

Čučer-Sandevo

Municipality
  
Čučer-Sandevo Municipality

Weather
  
15°C, Wind SE at 3 km/h, 45% Humidity

Čučer-Sandevo (Macedonian:  Чучер-Сандево ) is a village in Republic of Macedonia. It is a seat of the Čučer-Sandevo Municipality.

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Map of Chucher-Sandevo, Macedonia (FYROM)

Geography

The village is located on southwestern parts of Skopska Crna Gora. Čučer-Sandevo is 15 km away from Skopje.

History

According to Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov, in 1900 the village had 360 inhabitants who were Christians (Macedonians). According to Bulgarian sources, the village was settled by Serbs in the period between 1689 and 1739. The original name of the village was Čučer; Sandevo ("Sande's") was added after World War II in honour of Aleksandar Urdarevski-Sande.

Demographics

According to the 2002 census, Čučer-Sandevo had a population of 299 inhabitants, of whom 180 were Serbs (60%), 117 Macedonians (39%), 1 Albanian and 1 other.

Anthropology

According to Skopska Crna Gora (1971), the following families (or "brotherhoods") lived in Čučer.

  • Čučer
  • Kačaniklići (Качаниклићи). Four families. The ancestor of the Kačaniklić brotherhood in Čučer fled from Đurđev Dol in the nearby Kačanik Gorge (hence their surname), due to violence in ca. 1810 (during Ottoman rule). They have the slava (patron saint) of St. John. They derived their family name from their previous location.
  • Livrinići
  • Kajevići
  • Notable people

  • Aleksandar Urdarevski, participant in the National Liberation War and National Hero
  • References

    Čučer-Sandevo Wikipedia


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