Dihovo

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'''Dihovo''' ({{langx|mk|Дихово}}) is a village in the municipality of Bitola, North Macedonia located under Baba Mountain, about seven kilometers away from Bitola, the second largest city in the country.

==Demographics== Dihovo is attested in the Ottoman defter of 1467/68 as a village in the vilayet of Manastir. The inhabitants attested largely bore mixed Slavic-Albanian anthroponyms, such as ''Pejo'' son of ''Gerg'', ''Dabzhiv Gugur'', ''Dimitri'', son of ''Grnçar'', ''Andreja Martin'' etc.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Murati |first1=Qemal| journal=Studime Albanologjike|title=EMRA VETJAKË TË PROVENIENCËS SHQIPTARE NË VILAJETIN E MANASTIRIT NË DRITËN E DEFTERËVE OSMANË TË SHEK. XV |date=2022 |publisher=ITSH|page=35|quote=DIHOVO Pejo, i biri i Gerg-it; Dabizhiv Gugur (regjistruar Krkur); Andreja Martin; Dimitri, i biri i Andreja-s; Dimitri, i biri i Mihal-it; Dimitri, i biri i Grnçar-it.}}</ref>

In the early 19th century population of Dihovo was populated by Tosks, a subgroup of southern Albanians.<ref name="Indogermanische183">{{cite book|last=Indogermanische Gesellschaft|title=Indogermanisches Jahrbuch, Vol. 13|year=1929|publisher=Karl J. Trübner|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S6fNAAAAMAAJ&q=Ostrec+geg|pages=183}} "Monastir (Bitol) auch für das Studium des Alb. geeignet: Ostrec (11 km von Monastir), Zlokućani haben geg., Dihovo, Bratindol, Magarevo, Ramna, Kažani, Dolenci, Lera, Crnovec, Drevenik, Murgašovo tosk. Bevölkerung. Die tosk."</ref>

In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Dihovo was inhabited by 200 Christian Bulgarians and 260 Muslim Albanians.<ref>Vasil Kanchov (1900), ''[http://www.promacedonia.org/vk/vk_2_36.htm Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics]''. Sofia. p. 239.</ref> According to the statistics of Bulgarian Exarchate secretary Dimitar Mishev (as D. M. Brancoff), the village had a total Christian population of 560 in 1905, of which all were Patriarchist Bulgarians.<ref name=macedoine>D. M. Brancoff, [https://anemi.lib.uoc.gr/php/pdf_pager.php?filename=%2Fvar%2Fwww%2Fanemi-portal%2Fmetadata%2F6%2F9%2F5%2Fattached-metadata-5d3c137498cf87397083652dec9dfdac_1242889374%2F154547_w.pdf&rec=%2Fmetadata%2F6%2F9%2F5%2Fmetadata-5d3c137498cf87397083652dec9dfdac_1242889374.tkl&do=154547_w.pdf&width=1031&height=728&pagestart=1&maxpage=141&lang=el&pageno=87&pagenotop=87&pagenobottom=1 ''La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne''], p. 166</ref> It also had 1 Greek school.<ref name=macedoine />

At the outbreak of the Balkan War in 1912, 3 people from Dihovo were volunteers in the Macedonian-Edirne militia. The village remained in Serbia after the Inter-Allied War in 1913.

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 310 inhabitants.<ref name = Statisticaloffice/> Ethnic groups in the village include:<ref name = Statisticaloffice>Macedonian Census (2002), [http://www.stat.gov.mk/publikacii/knigaX.pdf ''Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion''], The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 70.</ref>

*Macedonians 305 *Serbs 3 *Others 2

In 1951, the families in village were:<ref>{{Cite book|last=Trifunoski|first=Jovan, F.|title=Bitoljsko-Prilepska Kotlina|year=1998|location=Belgrade}}</ref> * Plosnikovci (24 houses) the oldest family in the village, originally from the village of Ivanjevci * Skubevci (14 houses) originally from the village of Lera, Bitola * Toncevci (7 houses) originally from a village near Korçë in Albania. They think that their ancestors were orthodox Albanians, but mixed with orthodox Macedonians, and now speak only Macedonian * Garagadzinja (5 houses) originally from the village of Gneotino * Karafilovci (5 houses) originally from the village of Oreovo, near Bukovo * Cvetkovi (3 houses) originally from the village of Drmeni in Prespa * Prespani (5 houses) originally from the village of Brajcino in Prespa * Jankulovci (2 houses) * Janevci (13 houses) * Gluvcevi (11 houses) * Temelkovci (6 houses) * Savini (6 houses) * Bogojevci (5 houses) * Vuckovi (5 houses) * Kotovci (4 houses) * Damevci (2 houses) all of them with unknown origin. All settled in Divovo in the 19th century.

In 1961, the village had 686 inhabitants.

==References== {{commons category|Dihovo}} {{reflist}}

Category:Villages in Bitola Municipality