Ilinden (village)
village/town and seat of Ilinden Municipality, Macedonia
Ilinden (Macedonian: ) is a town in North Macedonia. It is a seat of the Ilinden Municipality. It is also very commonly referred by its old name Belimbegovo, in spite of the fact that the name was changed in 1951.
Demographics
As of the 2021 census, Ilinden had 5,161 residents with the following ethnic composition:
Macedonians 4,230
Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 414
Albanians 326
Serbs 111
Others 59
Roma 21
According to the 2002 census, the settlement had a total of 4931 inhabitants.
“Ilinden (village)” enters the record as village/town and seat of Ilinden Municipality, Macedonia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ilinden, village and town can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Ilinden (village)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ilinden, village and town provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3044844. Authority coordinates are 41.994, 21.579. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1951, 2021 and 2002.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ilinden (village)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.