Piskupshtina is a village in
Municipality of Struga
Municipality of Struga ( mk, Струга, translit=Struga, sq, Strugë) is a municipality in western North Macedonia. ''Struga'' is also the name of the town where the municipal seat is found. Struga Municipality is part of the Southwestern Sta ...
,
North Macedonia.
Demographics
Piskupština (''Peskoposhtina'') appears 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 as a village in the
timar of Saadi Hoca in the
vilayet of
Dulgoberda. The settlement had a total of six households and the anthroponyms recorded attest to a mixed Albanian-Slavic character, although clear instances of
Slavicisation are identifiable. For example, a certain ''Dobrosllav Zogovići'' is recorded among the village household heads, his patronym is derived from the Albanian ''zog'' ("bird") with the addition of the Slavic suffix -''ovići''. Household heads: ''Gjon Veselko''; ''Miho Kostovo''; ''Gjergj Kosta''; ''Miho Rojko''; ''Andrije'', brother of ''Gjon Veselko''; and ''Dobrosllav Zogovići''.
The register also notes that the lands of Piskupština were worked and planted by farmers from the neighbouring villages.
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 182 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. 134.
* Macedonians 182
References
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Villages in Struga Municipality