Tearce
Encyclopedia
Tearce is a village located 12 km to the northeast of Tetovo
, in northwestern Republic of Macedonia
, about 15 kilometres from the border with Kosovo
. It is a seat of the Tearce municipality
. Population 3,974 (2002). The B-405 road connects it to Tetovo.
Tearce has an Albanian
majority. The remaining population is Macedonian
, Turkish
, and Roma. The village was affected by the conflict of 2001, which strained relations between the ethnic groups in the village. On 22 January 2001 the Albanian police station at Tearce was shelled, killed one policeman and injuring three others.
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 northwestern 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...
, about 15 kilometres from the border with Kosovo
Kosovo
Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...
. It is a seat of the Tearce municipality
Tearce municipality
Tearce is a municipality in northwestern Republic of Macedonia. Tearce is also the name of the village where the municipal seat is found. Tearce Municipality is part of the Polog Statistical Region.-Geography:...
. Population 3,974 (2002). The B-405 road connects it to Tetovo.
Tearce has an Albanian
Albanians
Albanians are a nation and ethnic group native to Albania and neighbouring countries. They speak the Albanian language. More than half of all Albanians live in Albania and Kosovo...
majority. The remaining population is Macedonian
Macedonians (ethnic group)
The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs: "... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness...
, Turkish
Turkish people
Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...
, and Roma. The village was affected by the conflict of 2001, which strained relations between the ethnic groups in the village. On 22 January 2001 the Albanian police station at Tearce was shelled, killed one policeman and injuring three others.