Kanino (
Macedonian Cyrillic
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The Macedonian alphabet was
stand ...
: Канино) is a village away from
Bitola
Bitola (; ) is a city in the southwestern part of North Macedonia. It is located in the southern part of the Pelagonia valley, surrounded by the Baba, Nidže, and Kajmakčalan mountain ranges, north of the Medžitlija-Níki border crossing ...
, which is the second-largest city in
North Macedonia
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. It used to be part of the former municipality of
Bistrica.
Demographics
Kanino appears in 15th century
Ottoman defters
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Etymology
The term is derived from Greek , literally 'processed animal skin, leather, fur', meaning a book, having pages of goat parchment used along with papyrus ...
as a village in the
nahiyah
A nāḥiyah ( , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiyeh, nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level divisi ...
of
Manastır
Bitola (; ) is a city in the southwestern part of North Macedonia. It is located in the southern part of the Pelagonia valley, surrounded by the Baba (North Macedonia), Baba, Nidže, and Kajmakčalan mountain ranges, north of the Medžitlija-N ...
. Among its inhabitants, instances of household heads bearing the attribute ''
Arnaut
Arnaut () is a Turkish ethnonym used to denote Albanians. ''Arvanid'' (), ''Arnavud'' (), plural: ''Arnavudlar'' (): modern Turkish: ''Arnavut'', plural: ''Arnavutlar''; are ethnonyms used mainly by Ottoman and contemporary Turks for Alban ...
'', a medieval Ottoman rendering for Albanians, are also present: ''Pejo Arnaut'' and ''Mile Arnaut''.
In statistics gathered by
Vasil Kanchov
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Early life and education
Vasil Kanchov was born in Vratsa. Upon graduating from High school i ...
in 1900, the village of Kanino was inhabited by 190 Muslim Albanians and 60 Bulgarian Exarchists.
As of the
2021 census, Kanino had 104 residents with the following ethnic composition:
*Macedonians 89
*Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 15
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 111 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. 69.Serbs
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2
*Others 2
References
Villages in Bitola Municipality
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