Balin Dol

Balin Dol
Балин Дол
Balindoll
Village
Airview of the village Balin Dol
Balin Dol
Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 41°48′N 20°56′E / 41.800°N 20.933°E / 41.800; 20.933
Country North Macedonia
Region Polog
Municipality Gostivar
Population
 (2021)
 • Total
2,059
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Car platesGV
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Balin Dol (Macedonian: Балин Дол, Albanian: Balindoll) is a village in the municipality of Gostivar, North Macedonia.

Demographics

Balin Dol is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 26 Christian households and 2 bachelors.[1]

As of the 2021 census, Balin Dol had 2,059 residents with the following ethnic composition:[2]

  • Albanians 1,651
  • Macedonians 319
  • Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 72
  • Turks 13
  • Others 4

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 2501 inhabitants.[3] Ethnic groups in the village include:[3]

According to the 1942 Albanian census, Balin Dol was inhabited by 641 Muslim Albanians and 237 Serbs.[4]

References

  1. ^ Турски документи за историјата на македонскиот народ кн.4, Методија Соколоски, д-р Александар Стојановски, Скопје 1971
  2. ^ Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
  3. ^ 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. 87.
  4. ^ "Ethnic/Religious composition of Dibër and Tetovë prefectures".