Kišava, (, ) is a village in the municipality of

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, North Macedonia. It used to be part of the former municipality of Bistrica.

Demographics and History

Kišava is populated by Muslim

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. "Чисто албански села сега се: Арматуш, Кишава, Острец, Злокуќани, Снегово, Старо Змирново, Саждево, Јакреново, Борино, Норово, Древеник. При ослободувањето од турското владеење во 1912 г. оваа област имала повеќе чисто албански села." From the 1950s onward, people from Kišava began migrating to nearby settlements like

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or going abroad to other countries for better opportunities. As of the 2021 census, Kišava had 185 residents with the following ethnic composition:Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
/ref> *Albanians 169 *Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 16 According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 308 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. 69. *

307 * Macedonians 1 From 1963 onward, Albanians from Kišava migrated to Dandenong, a south-eastern Melbourne suburb in Victoria,

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. Dandenong is home to a large diaspora from Kišava and various landmarks are named after the village like Dandenong's Albanian mosque, Keshava Reserve, a park honouring Albanian immigration to the area and Keshava Grove, a residential street. In 2020, some members of the Kišava diaspora from Dandenong organised an ongoing annual festival ''Takimet e Keshavës'' (Kišava gathering) in Kišava, and is attended by the diaspora during their summer holidays in the village.

Gallery

File:Fshati Këshavë 3.jpg, Kišava village File:Fshati Këshavë 8.jpg, Traditional architecture of Kišava File:Fshati Këshavë 7.jpg, Road in Kišava File:Fshati Këshavë 5.jpg, Primary school in Kišava File:Fshati Këshavë 9.jpg, Houses in Kišava File:Xhamia e Këshavës 4.jpg, Mosque of Kišava File:Fshati Këshavë 22.jpg, Fields of Kišava toward the Baba mountain range File:Fshati Këshavë 15.jpg, Fields of Kišava File:Fshati Këshavë 17.jpg, Horses grazing on Kišava mountain slope File:Fshati Këshavë 16.jpg, Horse grazing in Kišava field File:Fshati Këshavë 24.jpg, Kišava village

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kisava Villages in Bitola Municipality Albanian communities in North Macedonia