Vrutok

Vrutok (Macedonian: Вруток, Albanian: Vërtok) is a village in the municipality of Gostivar, North Macedonia. The village is situated on the slopes of Mount Bistra by the Korab mountains, near the town of Gostivar.

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Village
Airview of the village Vrutok
Vrutok Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 41°46′N 20°50′E
Country	North Macedonia
Region	Polog
Municipality	Gostivar
Population  (2021)
• Total	640
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Car plates	GV
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Geography

Its importance belongs to the water streams where the river Vardar (388 km), a major river in North Macedonia and Greece, rises. Nearby is the hydro power plant Vrutok with 49 MW capacity.

Demographics

Vrutok is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 42 Christian households, 4 widows and 2 bachelors.^[1]

According to ethnographer Vasil Kanchov's data from 1900, the village was inhabited by 460 Christian Bulgarians, 300 Muslim Albanians and 24 Roma people.^[2]

According to the 1942 Albanian census, Vrutok was inhabited by 929 Muslim Albanians, 128 Serbs and 150 Bulgarians.^[3]

As of the 2021 census, Vrutok had 640 residents with the following ethnic composition:^[4]

• Albanians 369
• Macedonians 203
• Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 56
• Turks 9
• Others 3

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 1127 inhabitants.^[5] Ethnic groups in the village include:^[5]

• Albanians 846
• Macedonians 276
• Serbs 3
• Others 2

Notable people

• Jovan Trifunoski, geographer and anthropologist^[6]