Kurbinovo

Kurbinovo Курбиново
Village
Typical architecture in Kurbinovo
Kurbinovo Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 40°59′07″N 21°04′06″E
Country	North Macedonia
Region	Pelagonia
Municipality	Resen
Population  (2002)
• Total	137
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code	+389
Car plates	RE

Kurbinovo (Macedonian: Курбиново) is a village in the Resen Municipality of North Macedonia, northeast of Lake Prespa. The village is located nearly 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) south of the municipal centre of Resen.[1] The village is best known for being home to the 12th century Monastery of St George.

Demographics

According to the statistics of Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov from 1900, 200 inhabitants lived in Kurbinovo, all Bulgarian Exarchists.[2] Kurbinovo has 137 inhabitants as of the most recent census of 2002,[3] making it one of only four villages in the municipality that saw an increase in population from the previous census in 1994. The village population has been entirely ethnic Macedonian.[4]

Ethnic group	census 1961		census 1971		census 1981		census 1991		census 1994		census 2002
	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Macedonians	229	100	248	100	182	100	183	100	122	100	137	100
Total	229		248		182		183		122		137

People from Kurbinovo

• Nestor Ivanov (1879 - ?), member of the Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Volunteer Corps[5]

References

1. "Kurbinovo". Retrieved 2 March 2014.
2. Vasil Kanchov. "Macedonia. "Ethnography and statistics." Sofia, 1900, p. 241
3. "Municipality of Resen". Archived from the original on 2018-08-31. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
4. Censuses of population 1948 - 2002 Archived 2013-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
5. „Македоно-одринското опълчение 1912-1913 г. Личен състав“, Главно управление на архивите, 2006, стр. 293.

40°59′N 21°04′E