Odžovci
Odžovci is a village in the municipality of Centar Župa, North Macedonia. Odžovci was once a former neighbourhood of the village of Balanci and in 1965 elevated to the status of an independent village. The population density of the village is 6.4 km2.
Name
The toponym Odžovci is a patronymic formation derived from the term odža and the suffix ovci.Demographics
According to Ottoman tahrir defters from the 1520s, 16 villages associated with Kala-i Kodžadžik had no Muslim population. However, the Muslim population increased in subsequent years. This was likely part of the Islamization of Macedonia under Turkish rule.As of the 2021 census, Odžovci had 94 residents with the following ethnic composition:
- Turks 64
- Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 18
- Albanians 10
- Macedonians 2