Boište ( mk, Боиште) is a village in the outskirts of the town of
Demir Hisar within the
municipality
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Demir Hisar Municipality
Demir Hisar ( mk, Демир Хисар ) is a municipality in the southwestern part of North Macedonia. '' Demir Hisar'', which means "iron fortress" in Turkish, is also the name of the town where the municipal seat is found. Demir Hisar munici ...
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Republic of North Macedonia
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Demographics
in the 1467/1468 Ottoman defter, the village had 30 households, 2 widow and 2 bachelors. A majority of household heads bore Slavic names, while around a quarter bore Albanian and mixed Slavic-Albanian ones.
In statistics gathered by
Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Boište was inhabited by 650 Christian Bulgarians.
[Vasil Kanchov (1900). ]
Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics
'. Sofia. p. 236.
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 7 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. 175.
* Macedonians 7
References
External links
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Villages in Demir Hisar Municipality