Nistrovo
Нистрово
Nistrovë
Village
Panoramic view of the village Nistrovo
Panoramic view of the village Nistrovo
Nistrovo is located in North Macedonia
Nistrovo
Nistrovo
Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 41°44′N 20°38′E / 41.733°N 20.633°E / 41.733; 20.633
Country North Macedonia
RegionPolog
MunicipalityMavrovo and Rostuša
Population
 (2021)
 • Total32
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Car platesGV
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Nistrovo (Macedonian: Нистрово, Albanian: Nistrovë) is a village in the municipality of Mavrovo and Rostuša, North Macedonia.

Demographics

Nistrovo is one of the few Upper Reka villages with a resident population in the 2010s.[1] 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.[1] The Orthodox population for several decades migrated from the village to various urban centres and come back to Nistrovo in the summer.[1] Most homes in the Orthodox neighbourhood are abandoned and the restoration of the Orthodox church occurred in the early 2010s.[1]

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 121 inhabitants.[2] Ethnic groups in the village include:[2]

As of the 2021 census, Nistrovo had 32 residents with the following ethnic composition:[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d 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.
  2. ^ a b Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 136.
  3. ^ Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021