Šuto Orizari

[[File:Suto orizari birds eye view.png|thumb|Šutka from above.]]

[[File:Suto orizari birds eye view.png|thumb|Šutka from above.]]

[[File:Šuto Orizari sign in market.png|thumb|Šuto Orizari sign in market]]

[[File:Šuto Orizari sign in market.png|thumb|Šuto Orizari sign in market]]

'''Šuto Orizari''' ({{langx|mk|{{Audio|Mk-Shuto Orizari.ogg|Шуто Оризари}}}}, [[Balkan Romani language|Balkan Romani]]: ''Shuto Orizari, [[Albanian language|Albanian]]: Shutkë''), often shortened as '''''Šutka''''' ({{langx|mk|Шутка}}, {{langx|sq|Shutkë}}), is a neighbourhood in the [[Skopje|City of Skopje]], [[North Macedonia]], and the seat of [[Šuto Orizari Municipality]]. It is often regarded as the cultural capital of the [[Romani people in North Macedonia]].{{Cite journal| last1=Barany | first1=Zoltan | date=1995 | title=The Roma in Macedonia: Ethnic Politics and the Marginal Condition in a Balkan State | journal=[[Ethnic and Racial Studies]] | language=en | volume=18 | issue=3 | pages=522 | doi=10.1080/01419870.1995.9993877 | issn=0141-9870 }} It is "the only place in the world where Roma are organised politically and economically" according to president of Šutka's municipal council, Sead Ismail.{{Cite web |last=Hopkins |first=Valerie |title=Inside Shutka, Macedonia’s only Roma-run municipality |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/4/8/shutka-inside-macedonias-only-roma-run-municipality |access-date=2026-02-26 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}} An independent [[Romanistan]] (a state for the Romani people) was proposed here in the early 1990s by leaders of the [[Party for the Complete Emancipation of Roma]].{{cite book|author=Janusz Bugajski|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9gGKtLTQlUcC&pg=PA760|title=Political Parties of Eastern Europe: A Guide to Politics in the Post-Communist Era|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|year=2002|isbn=9781563246760|page=760}}

'''Šuto Orizari''' ({{langx|mk|Шуто Оризари}}, {{pronunciation|Mk-Shuto Orizari.ogg}}, {{langx|rmn|Shuto Orizari}}, {{langx|sq|Shutkë}}), often shortened as '''''Šutka''''' ({{langx|mk|Шутка}}, {{langx|sq|Shutkë}}), is a neighbourhood in the [[Skopje|City of Skopje]], [[North Macedonia]], and the seat of [[Šuto Orizari Municipality]]. It is often regarded as the cultural capital of the [[Romani people in North Macedonia]].{{Cite journal| last1=Barany | first1=Zoltan | date=1995 | title=The Roma in Macedonia: Ethnic Politics and the Marginal Condition in a Balkan State | journal=[[Ethnic and Racial Studies]] | language=en | volume=18 | issue=3 | pages=522 | doi=10.1080/01419870.1995.9993877 | issn=0141-9870 }} It is "the only place in the world where Roma are organised politically and economically" according to president of Šutka's municipal council, Sead Ismail.{{Cite web |last=Hopkins |first=Valerie |title=Inside Shutka, Macedonia’s only Roma-run municipality |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/4/8/shutka-inside-macedonias-only-roma-run-municipality |access-date=2026-02-26 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}} An independent [[Romanistan]] (a state for the Romani people) was proposed here in the early 1990s by leaders of the [[Party for the Complete Emancipation of Roma]].{{cite book|author=Janusz Bugajski|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9gGKtLTQlUcC&pg=PA760|title=Political Parties of Eastern Europe: A Guide to Politics in the Post-Communist Era|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|year=2002|isbn=9781563246760|page=760}}

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