Municipality of Karposh
Municipality history
The municipality of Karposh was formed on the 3th of November 1976 with the Municipalities Forming Law of the City of Skopje and the Law on Determination (“Gazette of SRM“ no.8/76)
The biggest part of the area where the municipality was formed was called Karposh which is a mutual name(nickname) of two significant persons from the history of the Macedonian people:
Karposh-the duke, who was a leader of the mutiny in the the area of Kriva Palanka and Kumanovo in 1689 and faught against the Turkish feudal lords ( Karposh mutiny). The mutiny was smothered, and Karposh was stranded, impaled, speared, and then thrown into the River Vardar from the Stone Bridge.
In order not to be forgotten the name of Karposh had been taken by Hristijan Todorovski-a national hero of Macedonia and legendary partisan commander in the northeast of Macedonia. He died bravely on the 7th February, 1944, fighting against the fascist police in the village of Biljacha.
By retelling of eminent Macedonian historians the name of the municipality of Karposh can not be related to only one of these two significant historical persons, regarding the fact that the name Karposh itself associates endurance of the Macedonian people for their own country and their own national identity.
General information
The municipality of Karposh is a compound part of the City of Skopje, one of the ten municipalities of Skopje. The municipality of Karposh consists of 14 unites called local communities, out of which 12 are urban and just two (Bardovci and Gorno Nerezi) are rural.
- Area: 35 km2
- Above sea level altitude: 362 m
- Population: mixed, out of which 88,52 % are Macedonians
- Position: the northwest part of Macedonia, the west central part of Skopje
- Overall surface under woods: 235,12 ha
- Climate : middle annual temperature 13,8 оC
- Average annual rainfalls: 441,2 l/m2
- Rainy days: 102
- Snowy days: 9
- Foggy days: 14
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