Krstoar

Krstoar
Крстоар
Kërstoari
Village
Krstoar is located in North Macedonia
Krstoar
Krstoar
Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 41°02′N 21°16′E / 41.033°N 21.267°E / 41.033; 21.267
Country North Macedonia
Region Pelagonia
Municipality Bitola
Population
 (2021)
 • Total
239
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Krstoar (Macedonian Cyrillic: Крстоари) is a village 4.51 kilometres (2.80 mi) away from Bitola, which is the second-largest city in North Macedonia. It used to be part of the former municipality of Bistrica.

Name

The village is known as Kërstoari in Albanian.

Demographics

Krstoar is attested in the Ottoman defter of 1467/68 as a village in the vilayet of Manastir. The inhabitants attested almost entirely bore typical Slavic anthroponyms, with one instance of the Albanian anthroponym Gjon (son of Janko) also present.[1]

As of the 2021 census, Krstoar had 239 residents with the following ethnic composition:[2]

  • Macedonians 200
  • Albanians 21
  • Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 11
  • Turks 5
  • Serbs 2

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 167 inhabitants.[3] Ethnic groups in the village include:[3][4]

Families

Krstoar is a Macedonian village. In 1951, families in village are:[5]

Gjorevci (11 houses in village), Jonovci (8 houses), Kundevci (7 houses), Josifovci (3 houses), Cancukovci (3 houses), Mockovci (2 houses), Kotevi (2 houses) and Geldanovci (1 house) all of them natives in village; Sitnovci (4 houses) they settled from somewhere in 18 century; Vidinovci (8 houses) settled from Prespa; Gulevci (8 houses) settled from Albania; Mosheni (4 houses) settled from village Setina, near Florina; Domazetovci (2 houses) settled from Klobucista near Florina; Trifunovci (2 houses) settled from village Bukovo; Apostolovci (1 house) and Petrevci (1 house) settled from elsewhere; Milosevci (2 houses) settled after 1913 from Prespa, Ristovi (1 house) settled from Bitola.

References

  1. ^ Murati, Qemal (2022). "EMRA VETJAKË TË PROVENIENCËS SHQIPTARE NË VILAJETIN E MANASTIRIT NË DRITËN E DEFTERËVE OSMANË TË SHEK. XV". Studime Albanologjike. ITSH: 28. KRSTOHOR Gon, i biri i Janko-s; Dimitri, i biri i Janko-s; Vllado, vëllai i Dimitri-t; Neno, i biri i Dimitri-t; Dimitri Gruban; Dimitri, i biri i Pejo-s; Stançe, i biri i Dimitri-t; Dimitri, i biri i P-l-s-k-o; Kojo, i biri i P-l-s-k-o.
  2. ^ Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
  3. ^ 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. 314.
  4. ^ "Krstoar Bitola, Macedonia - Krstoar Bitola | Krstoar map".
  5. ^ Trifunoski, Jovan, F. (1998). Bitoljsko-Prilepska Kotlina. Belgrade.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)