THE ALBANIAN AND TURKISH MINORITIES IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA (POPULATION NUMBERS, STRUCTURE AND MIGRATIONS)
THE ALBANIAN AND TURKISH MINORITIES IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA (POPULATION NUMBERS, STRUCTURE AND MIGRATIONS)

Author(s): Borče Ilievski
Subject(s): History, Ethnohistory, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Migration Studies, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije
Keywords: Albanian minority; Turkish minority; population censuses; People’s Republic of Macedonia; migrations
Summary/Abstract: In this text, the total population number, but especially the migrations of the Albanian and Turkish populations are being analyzed based on numerous statistical data, archival documents, and literature. Those minorities repre- sented the biggest part of the minority population of the People’s Republic of Macedonia, as well as the largest part of the Muslim population. A reference is made to several statistical and demographic data related to the change in national/eth- nic identity of the Turks, Albanians, and Macedonian Muslims during the censuses conducted in 1948, 1953, and 1961. The migration process of the above-mentioned Muslim communities is being followed using several examples, as well as the immigration process of Albanians to Macedonia who originally lived in the Autonomous Region of Kosovo and Metohija and other parts of Yugoslavia.

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