Demir Hisar, Pelagonia Region, North Macedonia
🇲🇰 Demir Hisar (Демир Хисар) (formerly Murgaševo until 1946) is a small town in North Macedonia. It is the seat of Demir Hisar Municipality.
Demographics Ethnic groups in the village include: • Macedonians (93.8%) • Unknown (2.8%) • Albanians (1.6%) • Roma (0.7%) • Vlachs (0.4%) • Serbs (0.2%) • Others (0.5%).
History In the 1467/1468 Ottoman defter, Murgaševo had 115 households, 8 bachelors and 3 widows. The majority of household heads bore Slavic or general Christian personal names, however, when including kinship ties, the Albanian element constituted just under a quarter
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Murgaševo was inhabited by 240 Muslim Albanians. In 1905 in statistics gathered by Dimitar Mishev Brancoff, Murgaševo was inhabited by 240 Muslim Albanians. The population of Demir Hisar (Murgaševo) are Tosks, a subgroup of southern Albanians. In the 2010s, only three Albanian families remain in Demir Hisar and nearby Albanian villagers from Obednik are assisting the community in efforts to repair the dilapidated old village mosque.
Geography The municipality borders Kičevo Municipality to the north, Kruševo Municipality and Mogila Municipality to the east, Bitola Municipality to the south, and Resen Municipality, Ohrid Municipality, and Debarca Municipality to the west.
Skopje Time
🇵🇹 Marco de Canaveses 41.183
🇺🇸 Bridgeport 41.179
Locations Near: Demir Hisar 21.2,41.2167
🇲🇰 Bitola 21.34,41.033 d: 23.6
🇲🇰 Kisela Voda 21.441,41.98 d: 87.2
🇲🇰 Skopje 21.362,42.007 d: 88.9
Antipodal to: Demir Hisar -158.8,-41.217
🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 17238.3
🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 17300.8
🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 16806.4
🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 16721.7
🇺🇸 Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 13227.8
🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 13123.7
🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 13107.9
🇺🇸 Kahului -156.466,20.891 d: 13104.8