Mavrovo, Mavrovo I Rostuše
Mavrovo ( ) is a village and tourist resort in the mountainous region of western North Macedonia. It is located in the Mavrovo and Rostuša Municipality. The St Nicholas Church, Mavrovo, St Nicholas Church in Mavrovo was built in 1850. It was submerged in the local lake in 1953, but due to droughts in the 21st century it has largely appeared out of the lake. Demographics Mavrovo is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Tetovo, Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 20 Christian households and 2 bachelors. In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village was inhabited by 1222 Bulgarians, 12 Muslims, Muslim Albanians and 25 Vlachs. Kanchov notes the village as being bilingual in Albanian and Bulgarian, with the latter being the language spoken in the househould. According to a 1929 ethnographic map by Russian Slavist Afanasy Selishchev, Mavrovo was a Bulgarian village. According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 166 in ...
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