Nistrovo
Demographics
Nistrovo is one of the few Upper Reka 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.
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 121 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:
- Albanians 121
As of the 2021 census, Nistrovo had 32 residents with the following ethnic composition:
- 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
- ^ Pieroni, Andrea; Rexhepi, Besnik; Nedelcheva, Anely; Hajdari, Avni; Mustafa, Behxhet; Kolosova, Valeria (2013). "One century later: the folk botanical knowledge of the last remaining Albanians of the upper Reka Valley, Mount Korab, Western Macedonia". Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 9 (1): 2–3. doi:10.1186/1746-4269-9-22. PMC 3648429. PMID 23578063.
- ^ Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 136.
- ^ Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
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