Poeševo

Village in Pelagonia, North Macedonia

41°02′N 21°16′E / 41.033°N 21.267°E / 41.033; 21.267Country

North MacedoniaRegion

PelagoniaMunicipality

BitolaPopulation

(2002)

• Total272Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Car platesBTWebsite.

Poeševo (Macedonian: Поешево) is a village in the municipality of Bitola, North Macedonia. The village is 5.1 kilometres (3.2 mi) away from Bitola, which is the second-largest city in the country.

Demographics

Poeševo is attested in the Ottoman defter of 1467/68 as a village in the vilayet of Manastir. The e inhabitants attested bore a mixed Slavic-Albanian anthroponymy, such as Dedie Radosllav.^[1]

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 272 inhabitants.^[2] Ethnic groups in the village include:^[2]

Macedonians 266
Albanians 6

Sports

Local football club FK Poeševo plays in the OFS Bitola First Division.

References

^ Murati, Qemal. "POZDESHEVO Dedie Radosllav; Kojo Rajço; Bajo Dedie; Dimitri Dedie; Kojo Ivko; Dimitri Çerp; Vllajo Kojo". Studime Albanologjike.
^ ^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. 71.