Kumanovo

Kumanovo ; Куманово; Kumanova / Kumanovë
Basic data
Region :	Northeast
Municipality :	Kumanovo
Coordinates :	42 ° 8 ' N , 21 ° 43' E Coordinates: 42 ° 8 '0 " N , 21 ° 43' 0" E
Height :	344 m. i. J.
Area (Opština) :	509.48 km²
Residents :	73,360 (2016)
Inhabitants (Opština) :	109,228 (2016)
Population density :	214 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code :	(+389) 031
Postal code :	1300
License plate :	KU
Structure and administration
Community type:	Opština
Structure :	48 villages
Mayor :	Maksim Dimitrievski ( SDSM )
Website :	www.kumanovo.gov.mk

Kumanovo ( Macedonian Куманово ; Albanian Kumanova or Kumanovë , Turkish Kumanova ) is the second largest city in North Macedonia with over 73,000 inhabitants (2016) and is located in the north of the country near the Kosovar and Serbian borders. The city is an important location for agriculture and energy production in North Macedonia. It is the administrative seat of the municipality of the same name, which is part of the northeast region .

population

In the 2002 census, 70,842 inhabitants were determined for the city and 108,471 inhabitants for the community. Ethnically they were divided as follows:

65,516 Macedonians (60.4%)
28,093 Albanians (25.9%)
9,328 Serbs (8.6%)
4,338 Roma (4.0%)

history

The city is of historical importance for the North Macedonian state, since here and in Prilep on October 11, 1941 the resistance against fascism , which is closely linked to the national movement of North Macedonia, began.

On November 5, 1962, a serious railway accident occurred near Kumanovo when a train derailed . 23 people died and 17 were also injured.

In 1999 the ceasefire negotiations to end the Kosovo war took place in Kumanovo , which were successfully concluded with the Kumanovo Agreement .

In skirmishes between Macedonian security forces and armed Albanian underground fighters from Kosovo, eight police officers died on May 9 and 10, 2015, and 37 other security forces were injured. 14 underground fighters were killed. According to the Macedonian police, the group was commanded by five Kosovars , three of whom were caught. Later a so-called "National Liberation Army" claimed responsibility for the attack. The fighting came in the midst of the domestic political crisis in Macedonia, where eavesdropped audio recordings severely discredited the government's credibility and legitimacy , and thousands of people took to the streets as a result.

economy

Due to its metal and textile industry, Kumanovo is an important industrial center in North Macedonia.

traffic

Street

The M1 motorway , coming from Veles , passes the city west and continues to Serbia . Another road runs north of the city, leads via Kriva Palanka to the Bulgarian border , from where it continues to Sofia .

railroad

Kumanovo is located on the main line of the North Macedonian Railway , the Tabanovci – Gevgelija line . The 2019 timetable offered four pairs of national trains and one pair of trains running between Greece and Belgrade only in the summer months for passenger transport with Skopje. From Kumanovo a branch branched off from the main line to the east, which was closed in 1994 . This has been renovated and is currently being extended towards Bulgaria, but is currently (spring 2020) still without traffic.

Air traffic

Skopje Airport is around 30 kilometers south .

Others

About 30 kilometers in the northeast of the city is the archaeological site of the prehistoric observatory Kokino near the place of the same name.

Town twinning

Northern Cyprus Lefkoşa , Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (since 2007)

Kumanovo is the only non-Turkish city with which the Turkish northern part of Nicosia is twinned.

Sons of the city

Ace Rusevski (born 1956), boxer
Redžep Redžepovski (born 1962), boxer
Saša Ćirić (* 1968), football player
Orhan Mustafi (* 1990), North Macedonian-Swiss football player
Egzon Shabani (* 1991), football player

Web links

Commons : Kumanovo - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Official website of the city
Official census 2002 (PDF file; 385 kB)

Individual evidence

^ North Macedonia: Outline (statistical regions and municipalities) - population figures, graphics and map. Retrieved April 15, 2018 .
^ Peter WB Semmens: Catastrophes on rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , p. 167.
↑ Sinisa Jakov Marusic: Macedonia Declares Mourning For Police Killed in Gunbattles. Macedonia declared days of mourning for police killed in battles with shadowy armed formation in Kumanovo - where calm was slowly restored on Sunday. In: Balkan Insight . May 10, 2015, accessed May 12, 2015 .
^ Tobias Heinze: Course book of the Macedonian Railway. Timetable year 2019. In: ec-tobias.de , accessed on May 27, 2020.

[1] North Macedonia: Outline (statistical regions and municipalities) - population figures, graphics and map. Retrieved April 15, 2018 .

[2] Peter WB Semmens: Catastrophes on rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , p. 167.

[3] Sinisa Jakov Marusic: Macedonia Declares Mourning For Police Killed in Gunbattles. Macedonia declared days of mourning for police killed in battles with shadowy armed formation in Kumanovo - where calm was slowly restored on Sunday. In: Balkan Insight . May 10, 2015, accessed May 12, 2015 .

[4] Tobias Heinze: Course book of the Macedonian Railway. Timetable year 2019. In: ec-tobias.de , accessed on May 27, 2020.