MACEDONIA represents one of the extremes in Yugoslavia, the northwestern part of which, particularly Slovenia, belongs to Central Europe according to its historical and economic development, whereas the southeastern part, including the whole of Macedonia, was set free from the old feudal Turkish empire in 1912. Very httle was changed during the domination of Serbian kings, between 1912 and 1941, and the'Macedonians were accepted as a separate nation and given the opportunity for their national and economic upraise only after the last war. Together with them the national minorities, the Turks and Shqyptars* started to develop. CHARACTERISTICS OF ETHNIC GROUPS The district of Tetovo, the area of our study, covers the northern part of western Macedonia and has a nationaHy and religiously mixed population composed of Macedonians, Shqyptars and Turks. The present ethnic and socioeconomic characteristics of this area reflect the historical hfe under the feudal
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