Arbasanci () is a
village
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in the
municipality
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The term ''municipality' ...
of
Sveti Nikole
Sveti Nikole ( ; meaning ''Saint Nicholas'') is a town in North Macedonia. It is the seat of Sveti Nikole Municipality and a center of a plain called Ovče Pole (''Plain of sheep''), famous for sheep farming, lamb meat, and dairy products of al ...
,
North Macedonia
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.
It is home of a barely excavated
archaeological site
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.
Name
The name is derived from the medieval ethnonym of
Albanians
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, ''Arban''.
Demographics
On the 1927 ethnic map of
Leonhard Schulze-Jena, the village is written as "Arabasanci" and shown as without an ethnic marker.
[Schultze Jena, Leonhard. Makedonien: Landschafts- und Kulturbilder. Jena, Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1927] According to the 2002 census, the village had 1 inhabitant.
[ Ethnic groups in the village include:][Macedonian Census (2002)]
''Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion''
The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 314.
* Macedonians 1
References
Villages in Sveti Nikole Municipality
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