Bistrica, Bitola

Village in Pelagonia, North Macedonia

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40°58′45″N 21°21′48″E / 40.97917°N 21.36333°E / 40.97917; 21.36333Country

North MacedoniaRegion

PelagoniaMunicipality

BitolaPopulation

(2002)

• Total1,015Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Car platesBTWebsite.

Bistrica (Macedonian: Бистрица) is a village in the municipality of Bitola, North Macedonia. It lies about 6.31 kilometres away from Bitola, which is the second largest city in North Macedonia.

Demographics

Bistrica is attested in the Ottoman defter of 1467/68 as a village in the vilayet of Manastir. The inhabitants attested largely bore typical Slavic anthroponyms along with a few instances of Albanian ones, such as Тode Arbanash, Gerg son of Pelegrin or Dimitri son of Prift.^[1]

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 1015 inhabitants.^[2] Ethnic groups in the village include:^[2]

Macedonians 949
Albanians 55
Serbs 8
Others 3

References

^ Murati, Qemal (2022). "EMRA VETJAKË TË PROVENIENCËS SHQIPTARE NË VILAJETIN E MANASTIRIT NË DRITËN E DEFTERËVE OSMANË TË SHEK. XV". Studime Albanologjike. ITSH: 35. BISTRICA Tode Arbanash; Gerg, i biri i Pelegrin-it; Stojko, i biri i Grgur-it; Dimitri, i biri i Priftit; Dimitri, i biri i Radin-it; Dimitri, i biri i Jovan-it; Dimitri, i biri i Stanisha-s; Kojo, i biri i Stojan-it.
^ ^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. 69.