Košarka
Sign in to saveKošarka () is an abandoned Turkish village in the mountains of the eastern mountain valley of the municipality Demir Kapija in North Macedonia. Most of its residents moved down, close to the highway to develop another village, Laki. Laki is not a registered village, yet, but electricity has been brought to the villagers. There is a fountain where the village used to be, yet, difficult to find, as the footpath has been worn, hardly ever used.
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Place details
- Locality
- Општина Демир Капија
- Region
- Demir Kapija
- Country
- Северна Македонија
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Košarka
- Settlement.native_name
- Кошарка
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Куќи во Кошарка.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Houses in the locality Laki
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- North Macedonia
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within North Macedonia
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- 15px Vardar
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- Ottoman Empire
- Located in
- Demir Kapija Municipality
- Population
- +14
- Elevation
- +479
- Time zone
- Central European Summer Time
- Image
- Куќи во Кошарка.jpg
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Košarka () is an abandoned Turkish village in the mountains of the eastern mountain valley of the municipality Demir Kapija in North Macedonia. Most of its residents moved down, close to the highway to develop another village, Laki. Laki is not a registered village, yet, but electricity has been brought to the villagers. There is a fountain where the village used to be, yet, difficult to find, as the footpath has been worn, hardly ever used.
==Demographics== According to the statistics of Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov from 1900, 702 inhabitants lived in Košarka, all Turks. On the 1927 ethnic map of Leonhard Schulze-Jena, the village is shown as a Turkish village. As of the 2021 census, Košarka had 14 residents with the following ethnic composition: Turks 14