Dolenci () is a village in the municipality of Demir Hisar, North Macedonia.
Name Dolenci is also the name of a village in Prekmurje, a village in Gorski Kotar, several other villages near Ohrid and Prespa (Dolenci, Bitola, Bigor Dolenci, Manastirsko Dolenci), a hamlet of Donji Stupnik, a hamlet of Lupoglav, and a hamlet of nearby Završje.
Demographics In the 1467/1468 Ottoman defter, the village had 35 households. A majority of household heads bore Slavic names, while a fifth bore Albanian ones.
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Dolenci was inhabited by 330 Christian Bulgarians.Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 236.
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 97 inhabitants. all of them being MacedoniansMacedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 93.
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