Tuin, Kičevo
village in Kičevo, North Macedonia
Tuin (Macedonian: Туин, Albanian: Tuhin) is a village in the municipality of Kičevo, North Macedonia. It used to be part of the former municipality of Oslomej.
History
After the capture of the village by Partisan forces in 1944, 49 Albanians were massacred by incoming communist forces and the OZNA.
Demographics
The village is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kırçova. The village was divided in two timars, one having 40 and the other 42 houses, excluding bachelors (mucerred).
According to the 1942 Albanian census, Tuin was inhabited by a total of 1094 Muslim Albanians and 233 Bulgarians.
As of the 2021 census, Tuin had 784 residents with the following ethnic composition:
Albanians 766
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 1,476 inhabitants.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Tuin, Kičevo” is village in Kičevo, North Macedonia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Tuin, Kičevo and village, not as a finished interpretation.
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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 Apr 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3137042. Authority coordinates are 41.619, 21.045. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1944, 1467, 1942 and 1094.
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This entry incorporates text from “Tuin, Kičevo” 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.