Brusnik, Bitola

Village in Pelagonia, North Macedonia

Brusnik Брусник
Village
41°1′22.47″N 21°17′6.01″E / 41.0229083°N 21.2850028°E / 41.0229083; 21.2850028
Country	North Macedonia
Region	Pelagonia
Municipality	Bitola
Population (2002)
• Total	241
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Brusnik (Macedonian: Брусник, Greek: Μπρούσνικ) is a village in the Bitola Municipality of North Macedonia.

Demographics

Erekovci is attested in the Ottoman defter of 1467/68 as a village in the vilayet of Manastir. The inhabitants attested largely bore mixed Slavic-Albanian anthroponyms, such as Којо son of Коllar, Gon son of Çerp, Çerp son of Bajo and Gon Poçkar.^[1]

According to the statistics of Geographers Dimitri Mishev and D. M. Brancoff, the town had a total Christian population of 944 in 1905, consisting of 488 Patriarchist Bulgarians and 456 Exarchist Bulgarians.^[2] It also had 2 schools, 1 Bulgarian and 1 Greek.^[2]

According to the 2002 census, total population is 241.^[3]

Notable people

Tale Ognenovski - clarinetist and composer

References

^ Murati, Qemal (2022). "EMRA VETJAKË TË PROVENIENCËS SHQIPTARE NË VILAJETIN E MANASTIRIT NË DRITËN E DEFTERËVE OSMANË TË SHEK. XV". Studime Albanologjike. ITSH: 41. BRUSNIK Kojo, i biri i Kollar-it; Gon, i biri i Çerp-it; Çerp, i biri i Bajo-s; Dimitri, i biri i Gerg-it; Dimitri, i biri i Nikolla-s; Gon Poçkar.
^ ^a ^b Dimitri Mishev and D. M. Brancoff, La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne, p. 166
^ Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 70.