• Source: Virovo, Demir Hisar
  • Virovo (Macedonian: Вирово) is a village in the municipality of Demir Hisar, North Macedonia. It used to be part of the former municipality of Sopotnica.


    Demographics


    Virovo is attested in the Ottoman defter of 1467/68 as a village in the vilayet of Manastir. Тhe village had 42 households 6 widows and 2 bachelors. The majority of the inhabitants attested bore typical Christian Slavic anthroponyms, while over a quarter of them bore Albanian or mixed Slavic-Albanian anthroponyms.
    In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Belče was inhabited by 350 Christian Bulgarians.
    According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 151 inhabitants, all of whom were ethnic Macedonians.


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