Nistrovo (, ) is a
village
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in the
municipality
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of
Mavrovo and Rostuša,
North Macedonia
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.
Demographics
Nistrovo is recorded in the
Ottoman ''
defter
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Etymology
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'' of 1467 as a village in the
ziamet
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of
Reka
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which was under the authority of Karagöz Bey. The village had a total of 8 households and the anthroponymy attested depicted is majority
Albanian
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in character, with a minority being
Slavic
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(e.g ''Kol Bardhi, Gjon Pashajët, Gjore Ivret, Stepan Kovaç'' etc). In the 1519 census, the village was recorded under the name ''Nstrovë'' and had 36 Christian families. In 1583, the village of Nishtrovë recorded 70 Christian households and 13 bachelors, paid the
timar
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3665
akçe
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per year and had 3 mills that worked all year round. The anthroponyms attested exhibited an Albanian and Albanian-Slavic character: (e.g ''Miho Dade, Gjoni son of Miho, Petri Boshko, Kolo Pavlo, Gjin Krojçe, Pavle Deno, Gjin Stamati, Petro Stamati, Gjin Dane (Dabe), pop Nikolla, Pop Jovani, Gjin Jovko, Gjin Nikkola, Koço Drenko, Todor Petri, Nikolla Bogdani, Velçko Gjin, Hran Gjin, Mile Geno, Leko Gjorgji, Gjin Petri, Jefçe Nikolla etc).
In statistics gathered by
Vasil Kanchov
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in 1900, the village of Nistrovo was inhabited by 150 Orthodox Albanians and 230 Muslim Albanians.
Nistrovo is one of the few
Upper Reka
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villages with a resident population in the 2010s.
[ The village consists of two neighbourhoods, one populated by Muslim Albanians with a mosque and the other by Albanian speaking Orthodox Christians, who in the modern period self identify as Macedonians.][ The Orthodox population for several decades migrated from the village to various urban centres and come back to Nistrovo in the summer.][ Most homes in the Orthodox neighbourhood are abandoned and the restoration of the Orthodox church occurred in the early 2010s.][ 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. 136.
*Albanians
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As of the 2021 census, Nistrovo had 32 residents with the following ethnic composition:Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
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*Albanians 27
*Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 4
*Others 1
*Notable people born here include, Josif Bageri (15 August 1868 – 15 June 1915) was an educator, poet and Albanian nationalist figure.
References
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Villages in Mavrovo and Rostuša Municipality
Albanian communities in North Macedonia
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