second tale relates that five brothers: Miro, David, Peter, Gabriel and Mile moved to the area and founded the five villages: Miravci, Davidovo, Petrovo, Gabrovo and Miletkovo. The Gjura Mara celebration is unique to Miravci. This dance always takes place on the Tuesday after Orthodox Easter. It is a circle dance performed by the older women of the village. Inside the circle a young girl of the village dances with a staff. Around the circle young lads wearing Turkish fez hats try to break into the circle to get to the girl, who chases them off with a stick. The dance originates in a local tale of a girl Mara who was kidnapped by a Turkish pasha for his harem—her brother Gjuro made a daring foray to rescue her. The local dialect is similar to the southeastern Macedonian language dialects of Gevgelija-Strumica in general, with some diversions. These dialects differ from standard Macedonian in their use of penultimate and ultimate word stress (compared to the standard dialect's antepenultimate stress) as well as some vocabulary and grammatical differences (such as the use of -h as the past tense verb marker in the first person singular, as opposed to -v in standard dialect). Word-final vowels are often dropped when the definite-article suffix is added: glava - 'head' --> glav'ca - 'the head'. Demographics According to the 2002 census, the former municipality had a population of 2,626 and the village had a total of 1,647 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include: Macedonians 1640 Serbs 6 Others 1 References External links Official Website Miravci info Villages in Gevgelija Municipality