Nistrovo ( mk, Нистрово, sq, Nistrovë) is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...
in the
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
of
Mavrovo and Rostuša,
North Macedonia
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.
Demographics
Nistrovo is one of the few
Upper Reka
Upper Reka ( mk, Горна Река, Gorna Reka; ), meaning "Upper river", is a geographic and ethnographic subregion of the broader Reka region of western North Macedonia, including settlements within the upper left portion of the Municipali ...
villages with a resident population in the 2010s.
[ The village consists of two neighbourhoods, one populated by Muslim Albanians with a mosque and the other by Albanian speaking Orthodox Christians, who in the modern period self identify as Macedonians.][ The Orthodox population for several decades migrated from the village to various urban centres and come back to Nistrovo in the summer.][ Most homes in the Orthodox neighbourhood are abandoned and the restoration of the Orthodox church occurred in the early 2010s.][ 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. 136.
* Albanians 121
As of the 2021 census, Nistrovo had 32 residents with the following ethnic composition:Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
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*Albanians 27
*Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 4
*Others 1
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Villages in Mavrovo and Rostuša Municipality
Albanian communities in North Macedonia
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