Drenovo ( mk, Дреново) is a small
village
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located in the
municipality
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of
Makedonski Brod
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,
North Macedonia
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Name
The village is known as ''Drenovë'' in
Albanian
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History
The village is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of
Kırçova. The village had a total of 9 houses, excluding bachelors (''mucerred'').
During the Balkan wars, Serbian chetniks massacred 50 Albanian families in the village of Drenovo.
Demographics
In statistics gathered by
Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Drenovo was inhabited by 220 Muslim Albanians. According to the 1929 ethnographic map by Russian Slavist
Afanasy Selishchev, Drenovo was an Albanian village.
Афанасий Селищев. „Полог и его болгарское население. Исторические, этнографические и диалектологические очерки северо-западной Македонии“. – София, 1929, стр. 26.
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According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 33 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. 169.
* Macedonians 33
According to the 2021 census, the village had a total of 17 inhabitants.[ Ethnic groups in the village include:][Macedonian Census (2021)]
''Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion''
The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2021
* Macedonians 16
*Albanians
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References
Villages in Makedonski Brod Municipality
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