Bituše

Village in Polog, North Macedonia

41°37′00″N 20°35′18″E / 41.6167°N 20.5883°E / 41.6167; 20.5883Country

North MacedoniaRegion

PologMunicipality

Mavrovo and RostušaPopulation

(2021)

• Total161Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Car platesGVWebsite.

Bituše (Macedonian: Битуше) is a village in the municipality of Mavrovo and Rostuša, North Macedonia.

Demographics

Bituše is attested in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a village in the ziamet of Reka which was under the authority of Karagöz Bey. The village had a total of three households and the anthroponymy attested was Albanian in character.^[1]

According to the 1942 Albanian census, Bituše was inhabited by 624 Bulgarians.^[2]

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 96 inhabitants.^[3] Ethnic groups in the village include:^[3]

Macedonians 95
Serbs 1

As of the 2021 census, Bituše had 161 residents with the following ethnic composition:^[4]

Macedonians 128
Others (including Torbeš) 29
Others 3
Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 1

References

^ Caka, Eduart (2019). Defteri i hollësishëm për zonat e dibrës i vitit 1467. Tiranë: Akademia e studimeve albanologjike instituti historisë. p. 121. Petko Arbenasi, Pavël Arbenasini, and Gjuro Çervenko.
^ "Ethnic/Religious composition of Dibër and Tetovë prefectures".
^ ^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. 135.
^ Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021