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Porodin, North Macedonia
Village in Pelagonia, North Macedonia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Porodin (Macedonian: Породин, Albanian: Porodin) is a village in the municipality of Bitola, North Macedonia. It used to be part of the former municipality of Bistrica.
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History
Porodin contains two major archaeological sites within its boundaries. Bara Tumba, a Neolithic settlement, was discovered in 1953 and its findings are kept at the Institute and Museum Bitola.[1] Veluška Tumba is also a Neolithic site.
Demographics
According to the 1467-68 Ottoman defter, the village had 68 houses, 4 bachelors and 8 widows. Some of the heads of families had traditional Albanian names, such as the following: Gjin Arnaut (t. Arbanas), Goja son of Vilan, Koja (Goja) son of Nikola, Koja son of Dragusha, Lazor Koja, Dimitri son of Koja ( Goja).[2]
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Porodin was inhabited by 300 Christian Bulgarians and 190 Muslim Albanians.[3] According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 202 inhabitants.[4] Ethnic groups in the village include:[4]
- Macedonians 194
- Albanians 6
- Others 2
As of the 2021 census, Porodin had 139 residents with the following ethnic composition:[5]
- Macedonians 110
- Albanians 17
- Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 11
- Serbs 1
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