Virovo ( mk, Вирово) 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 to ...
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
Demir Hisar,
North Macedonia
North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Socialist Feder ...
. It used to be part of the former municipality of
Sopotnica.
Demographics
Virovo is attested 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 1467/68 as a village in the
vilayet of Manastir. Тhe village had 42 households 6 widows and 2 bachelors. The majority of the inhabitants attested bore typical Christian Slavic anthroponyms, while over a quarter of them bore Albanian or mixed Slavic-Albanian
anthroponyms.
In statistics gathered by
Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Belče was inhabited by 350 Christian Bulgarians.
[Vasil Kanchov (1900). ]
Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics
'. Sofia. p. 236.
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 151 inhabitants,
[ all of whom were ethnic Macedonians.][Macedonian Census (2002)]
''Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion''
The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 175.
References
Villages in Demir Hisar Municipality
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