Banište (, ) is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the

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of Debar,

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. It is located close to the Albanian border.

Demographics

Banište (''Banishta'') is recorded in the Ottoman ''

defter A ''defter'' was a type of tax register and land cadastre in the Ottoman Empire. 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 ...

'' of 1467 as a village in the

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of Upper Dibra. The settlement had a total of 10 households with the anthroponymy attested being of a mixed Albanian-Slavic character with instances of

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(e.g., ''Gjon Popovići''): the brothers ''Gjorgo,'' ''Istanec,'' and ''Nikolla Papriçi''; ''Kojo'', son of ''Gjergj''; ''Gjorgo'', son of ''Istepan''; ''Gjon Popovići''; ''Dimitri'', brother of the aforementioned; ''Progon'', brother of the aforementioned; ''Ninec'', brother of ''Kojo''; and ''Istanec'', brother of ''Gjorgo''. As of the 2021 census, Banište had 35 residents with the following ethnic composition:Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
/ref> *Albanians 28 *Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 4 *Macedonians 3 According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 90 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. 88. *

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80 * Macedonians 10

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Villages in Debar Municipality Albanian communities in North Macedonia {{Debar-geo-stub