Brusnik (, is a village in the

Bitola Municipality Bitola ( ) is a municipality in the southern part of North Macedonia. ''Bitola'' is also the name of the city where the municipal seat is located. The municipality is located in the Pelagonia Statistical Region. Geography The municipality of Bit ...

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Demographics

Erekovci is attested in the Ottoman

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of 1467/68 as a village in the

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. The inhabitants attested largely bore mixed

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anthroponyms Anthroponymy (also anthroponymics or anthroponomastics, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος ''anthrōpos'', 'human', and ὄνομα ''onoma'', 'name') is the study of ''anthroponyms'', the proper names of human beings, both individual and colle ...

, such as ''Којо'' son of ''Коllar'', ''Gon'' son of ''Çerp'', ''Çerp'' son of ''Bajo'' and ''Gon Poçkar''. According to the statistics of geographer Dimitri Mishev (D. M. Brancoff), the town had a total Christian population of 944 in 1905, consisting of 488 Patriarchist

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and 456 Exarchist Bulgarians.Dimitri Mishev (D. M. Brancoff)
''La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne''
p. 166 It also had 2 schools, 1 Bulgarian and 1 Greek. According to the 2002 census, total population is 241.Macedonian Census (2002)
''Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion''
The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 70.

Notable people

Tale Ognenovski Tale Ognenovski (; April 27, 1922 – June 19, 2012) was a North Macedonia, Macedonian multi-instrumentalist who played clarinet, Recorder (musical instrument), recorder, tin whistle, bagpipe, zurna, and drums. He composed or arranged ''List of ...

- clarinetist and composer

References

{{Bitola-geo-stub Villages in Bitola Municipality