Drenok ( mk, Дренок) is a village on Jablanica ( mk, Јабланица) mountain in Municipality of Struga,

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Demographic history

Drenok (''Dranok'') appears in the Ottoman ''

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'' of 1467 as a village in the

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of Iskender in the

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of Dulgoberda. The settlement had a total of four households and the anthroponymy attested depicts a presence of Albanian personal names alongside Christian names which belong to the Slavic onomastic sphere: ''Kojo'' son of ''Gjini'', ''Simko'' son of ''Lolça'', ''Petre'' brother of ''Kojo'', and ''Ninec'' brother of ''Simko''.

Population

As of the 2021 census, Drenok had 19 residents with the following ethnic composition:Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
/ref> *Macedonians 18 *Serbs 1

References

{{Struga Municipality Villages in Struga Municipality