Banište ( mk, Баниште, sq, Banisht) is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...

in the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Debar Debar ( mk, Дебaр ; Albanian: ''Dibër''/''Dibra'' or ''Dibra e Madhe;'' ) is a city in the western part of North Macedonia, near the border with Albania, off the road from Struga to Gostivar. It is the seat of Debar Municipality. Debar has ...

North Macedonia North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Yugoslavia. It ...

. It is located close to the Albanian border.

Demographics

Banište (''Banishta'') is recorded in the Ottoman '' defter'' of 1467 as a village in the

vilayet A vilayet ( ota, , "province"), also known by various other names, was a first-order administrative division of the later Ottoman Empire. It was introduced in the Vilayet Law of 21 January 1867, part of the Tanzimat reform movement initiated ...

of Upper Dibra. The settlement had a total of 10 households with the anthroponymy attested being of a mixed Albanian-Slavic character with instances of

Slavicisation Slavicisation or Slavicization, is the acculturation of something Slavic into a non-Slavic culture, cuisine, region, or nation. To a lesser degree, it also means acculturation or adoption of something non-Slavic into Slavic culture or terms. Th ...

(e.g., ''Gjon Popovići''): ''Gjorgo Papriçi''; ''Istanec'', brother of the aforementioned; ''Nikolla'', brother of the aforementioned; ''Kojo'', son of ''Gjergj''; ''Gjorgo'', son of ''Istepan''; ''Gjon Popovići''; ''Dimitri'', brother of the aforementioned; ''Progon'', brother of the aforementioned; ''Ninec'', brother of ''Kojo''; and ''Istanec'', brother of ''Gjorgo''. As of the 2021 census, Banište had 35 residents with the following ethnic composition:Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
/ref> *Albanians 28 *Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 4 *Macedonians 3 According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 90 inhabitants. 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. 88. * Albanians 80 * Macedonians 10

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Villages in Debar Municipality Albanian communities in North Macedonia {{Debar-geo-stub