Brusnik ( mk, Брусник, ) is a village in the

Bitola Municipality Bitola ( mk, Битола ) is a municipality in the southern part of North Macedonia. '' Bitola'' is also the name of the city where the municipal seat is found. The municipality is located in the Pelagonia Statistical Region. Geography The mun ...

North Macedonia North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Socialist Feder ...

Demographics

Erekovci is attested in the Ottoman

defter A ''defter'' (plural: ''defterler'') was a type of tax register and land cadastre in the Ottoman Empire. Description The information collected could vary, but ''tahrir defterleri'' typically included details of villages, dwellings, household ...

of 1467/68 as a village in the vilayet of Manastir. The inhabitants attested largely bore mixed Slavic-

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anthroponyms Anthroponymy (also anthroponymics or anthroponomastics, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος ''anthrōpos'' / 'human', and ὄνομα ''onoma'' / 'name') is the study of ''anthroponyms'', the proper names of human beings, both individual and co ...

, such as ''Којо'' son of ''Коllar'', ''Gon'' son of ''Çerp'', ''Çerp'' son of ''Bajo'' and ''Gon Poçkar''. According to the statistics of Geographers Dimitri Mishev and D. M. Brancoff, the town had a total Christian population of 944 in 1905, consisting of 488 Patriarchist

Bulgarians Bulgarians ( bg, българи, Bǎlgari, ) are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group native to Bulgaria and the rest of Southeast Europe. Etymology Bulgarians derive their ethnonym from the Bulgars. Their name is not completely understo ...

and 456 Exarchist Bulgarians.Dimitri Mishev and D. M. Brancoff
''La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne''
p. 166 It also had 2 schools, 1 Bulgarian and 1 Greek. According to the 2002 census, total population is 241.Macedonian Census (2002)
''Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion''
The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 70.

Notable people

Tale Ognenovski Tale Ognenovski ( mk, Тале Огненовски; April 27, 1922 – June 19, 2012) was a North Macedonia, Macedonian multi-instrumentalist who played clarinet, Recorder (musical instrument), recorder, tin whistle, bagpipe, zurna, and drums. ...

- clarinetist and composer

References

{{Bitola-geo-stub Villages in Bitola Municipality