Musinci

Musinci
Мусинци
Musaobası
Village
Panoramic view of the village
Panoramic view of the village
Musinci is located in North Macedonia
Musinci
Musinci
Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 41°09′59″N 21°32′17″E / 41.16639°N 21.53806°E / 41.16639; 21.53806
Country North Macedonia
Region Pelagonia
Municipality Mogila
Population
 (2002)
 • Total
302
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Car platesBT
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Musinci (Macedonian: Мусинци, Turkish: Musaobası) is a village in the municipality of Mogila, North Macedonia. It used to be part of the former municipality of Dobruševo.

Demographics

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In the early Ottoman period, Musinci was one of several villages in the Pelagonia plain settled by nomadic Turkomen tribes from Anatolia during 1475–1543.[1]

In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Musinci was inhabited by of whom 450 people are Turks, 80 Bulgarian Christians and 10 Romani.[2]

On the Ethnographic Map of the Bitola Vilayet of the Cartographic Institute in Sofia from 1901, Musinci appears as a mixed village of Bulgarians, Albanians and Turks in the Prilep Kaza of the Bitola Sanjak with 83 houses.[3]

In the 1905 Austrian ethnographic map of the region of Macedonia, Musinci appears as being inhabited by an Exarchist Orthodox Macedonian Slavic majority as well as a Turkish Muslim and Orthodox Christian Albanian minority.[4]

The Yugoslav census of 1953 recorded 1222 people of whom 1200 were Turks, 18 Macedonians, 1 Albanian and 3 others.[5] The 1961 Yugoslav census recorded 575 people of whom 480 were Macedonians, 90 Turks, 4 Albanians and 7 others.[5] The 1971 census recorded 396 people of whom 361 were Macedonians, 31 Turks, 1 Albanian and 3 others.[5] The 1981 Yugoslav census recorded 388 people of whom 353 were Macedonians, 21 Turks, 13 Bosniaks and 2 others.[5] The Macedonian census of 1994 recorded 309 people of whom 284 were Macedonians, 24 Turks and 1 Albanian.[5]

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 302 inhabitants.[6] Ethnic groups in the village include:[6]

References

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  1. ^ Mihajlovski, Robert (2021). The Religious and Cultural Landscape of Ottoman Manastır. Brill. p. 32. ISBN 9789004465268.
  2. ^ Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 247.
  3. ^ Михајловски, Роберт, уред. (2017). Етнографска карта на Битолскиот вилает (PDF). Каламус. стр. 24.
  4. ^ ÖStA HHStA, PA XII Türkei Liasse XXV. Kt. 272. Zur Detailbeschreibung von Makedonien. Beilage 4.
  5. ^ a b c d e Sherafedin Kaso (2005). The settlements with Muslim population in Macedonia. Logos-A. p. 219. ISBN 978-9989-58-155-7.
  6. ^ a b Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 95.
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