PART OF THE MONOGRAPH “GOJKO JAKOVLEVSKI” BY SLAVE KATIN
It was interesting for us to hear many details about Zubovce, when among other things, he told us: “There are several small springs around the village which names are: Sugarski, Kalapetroec and Lapnimushica. The area of Zubovce village is mostly covered with fields, and the names of the places where the fields are found are very descriptive, such as Mal Pat, Krst, Docen Ces, Manastirsko, Caparko jca, Chapraga, Danche, Drenoec, Dabche, Ko bel, Kara Zela, Golema Niva, Bunarche, Orash lika, Krepikukjica, Peskarnik, Kalimanoec, Cetalche, Lazhec, Kluko …
Although Zubovce is a densely populated village, the village meadows are located at the locations of Slati na and Livadje, the forests are above the place called Kutur-Samar, and there are a number of neighborhoods in the very village. My neigh borhood is called Markovce, it was named af ter my great-grandfather Marko, who came here from Porecie region and stayed to live in Zubovce. My grand grandfather Marko formed there the Tundzovce, Stepanovce, Bardovce families.“
In fact the inhabitants divided the village into two neighborhoods and gave them interest ing names – “dolnomaalo” (lower neighbor hood) and “gornomaalo” (upper neighborhood). In 1946 there were 26 genera with 113 houses in Zubovce, and in the 1996 census of the new municipalities there were 530 inhabitants of which 526 declared themselves Macedonians, two as Serbs and other two declared them selves as other. In addition, the neighbor hoods also have sub-neighborhoods. For ex ample, “Gornomaalo” has sub-neighborhoods – Fichurovce, Polkovce.”
Sv.Toma
According to the words of the respected Rafkin, Zubovce is a purely Christian Ortho dox village and it is characteristic that besides the main Saint’s day of the village is St. Mare na, or Mary, the day when all the locals gather in the church yard, and guests from other vil lages in the surrounding area, and now more recently, from all over Macedonia come.
In the church kitchen very tasty beans is cooked in large pot, various fresh summer salads are served, the guests drink wine and brandy and various juices, listen to beautiful folk music, sing and even they can dance. The families are celebrating and they have special Saints days.
Concerning the historical development of the village of Zubovce, he says: “The oldest fami lies, as Gjegjenovci are called in the village, named by some grand-grandfather Gjegjin, who is said to have been a big landlord, had about 12,000 sheep and other properties, cele brated Saints day of Varvara; the same Saints day was celebrated by the Gjonevci, Kochovci, Popovci that come from a village clerical fam ily and celebrate St. Nicholas, as well.
The name of the first priest in their family was Alexa, followed by Paul, Tofil, Methodija, and Save. They were considered a “strong breed” because they were not afraid of the Turks and defended the village from Muslims to settle down there.
Their ancestors, in Turkish times, could freely fight with Muslim people without being responsible in front of anyone. Howev er, according to the stories, Muslims from De breshe succeeded to abduct the most beautiful girl from this family. The Korunovski family (originally from the village of Proshovce lo cated on Shara Mountain); Boskovski; Tra janovski and Tundzovski (emigrated from the village of Kunovo located on the Suva Gora mountain near Gostivar), Mladenovski (who settled down as tailors from the village of Zhelezna Reka), Poljkovski (originating from the village of Poreche), Dukovski (who came from a village that is not known where it is located – Dukovo) and the Bardovski family (came from the village of Bardovci in Skopje), Popoljovski (settled down from Prshovce or Pozharane of the Cocoljovski family, part of which live in the village of Galate), celebrate the Saint days of Petkovden and St. Nikola. Fikjurovci family (originally from the village of Arachinovo in Skopje), celebrate Mitrovden, which is, together with St. Nikola celebrated by the Stepanovski family who moved from Poreche to Zubovce. About 90 years ago, Al banians killed the head of this family and be cause of this cruel event they moved to Teto vo where they lived for six years and later they returned to Zubovce again.
To be continue
By SLAVE KATIN
