Brvenica
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Brvenica is one of the largest and most developed villages in Tetovo
Tetovo
Tetovo is a city in the northwestern part of Macedonia, built on the foothills of Šar Mountain and divided by the Pena River.The city covers an area of at above sea level, with a population of 86,580 citizens in the municipality. Tetovo is home to the State University of Tetovo and South East...

, in addition to others in the village and is the seat of the municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 Brvenica.

Geography and location

Located in Lower nest about 7 km south of Tetovo, at an altitude of 440 m, on the left side of the river Temishnica (left tributary of the Vardar River). Throughout the village dummy Brvenica passes and the largest river in the 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...

 - Vardar. The village is located near the mountain Suva Gora, and has an excellent view of the Sar Planina. Together with the village of Dolno Sedlarce is a large modern settlement.

Economy

On the territory of Brvenica, there are several commercial entities that employ most of the villagers. Important economic subjects are Agriculture Plant "age" and the mill for processing fodder "Agro Sloga. Because the village is located in Poloshkata valley, one of the most fertile plains in the Republic, the population of the village engaged in agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...

 / farming, fruit production and intensive farming
Intensive farming
Intensive farming or intensive agriculture is an agricultural production system characterized by the high inputs of capital, labour, or heavy usage of technologies such as pesticides and chemical fertilizers relative to land area....

.

Demographics

Brvenica has 2981 inhabitants of which: 2834 are Macedonians, 68 are Serbs
Serbs
The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...

, one Bosniak and 15 is reported as other. Much of the population Brvenica is temporarily working in foreign countries: Germany, Italy, UK, USA, Canada, Australia.

Social institutions

The village has eight-year primary school "Koco Racin", park in the village where a monument to fallen soldiers during the Liberation. The village has a standard football field
Football field
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 on which football meetings are held. There is a clinic with a permanent staff physician and nurses. In the village there are more self-service, discotheques, coffee bars, internet cafe
Internet cafe
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s, shops. С The village has produced Brvenica and urban plan, which is one of Brvenica najurbaniziranite villages in Macedonia.

Regular events

In a multi Brvenica tradition of holding the following events:
  • Celebration of Christmas (January 6)
  • Epiphany (January 19)
  • Празникот св. The feast of St.. Атанасиј (31-ви Јануари) посветен на црквата св. Athanasius (31 January) devoted to the church. Атанасиј во Брвеница Athanasius in Brvenica
  • Ilinden celebration of the feast (second August)
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