Musinci

Village in Pelagonia, North Macedonia

Musinci Мусинци Musaobası
Village
Panoramic view of the village
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 zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Car plates	BT
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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

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.^[1]

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

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 302 inhabitants.^[3] Ethnic groups in the village include:^[3]

Macedonians 284
Turks 16
Albanians 1
Serbs 1

References

^ ÖStA HHStA, PA XII Türkei Liasse XXV. Kt. 272. Zur Detailbeschreibung von Makedonien. Beilage 4.
^ ^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.
^ ^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.