{{Infobox settlement |name = Krstoar |official_name = |other_name = |native_name = Крстоар<br>Kërstoari |nickname = |settlement_type = Village <!-- images and maps -----------> |image_skyline = Воздушен поглед на Крстоар.jpg |imagesize = |image_caption = Air view of the village |image_flag = |flag_size = |image_seal = |seal_size = |image_shield = |shield_size = |image_blank_emblem = |blank_emblem_type = |blank_emblem_size = |image_map = |mapsize = |map_caption = |pushpin_map = North Macedonia |pushpin_map_caption = Location within North Macedonia |pushpin_label_position = top <!-- the position of the pushpin label: left, right, top, bottom, none --> |pushpin_mapsize = |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = {{NMK}} |subdivision_type1 = Region |subdivision_name1 = 15px Pelagonia |subdivision_type2 = Municipality |subdivision_name2 = 13px Bitola <!-- Area ---------------------> |area_magnitude = |unit_pref = <!--Enter: Imperial, to display imperial before metric--> |area_footnotes = |area_total_km2 = <!-- ALL fields with measurements are subject to automatic unit conversion--> |area_land_km2 = <!--See table @ Template:Infobox Settlement for details on unit conversion--> |area_water_km2 = |area_total_sq_mi = |area_land_sq_mi = |area_water_sq_mi = |area_water_percent = <!-- Elevation --------------------------> |elevation_footnotes = <!--for references: use <ref> tags--> |elevation_m = |elevation_ft = |elevation_max_m = |elevation_max_ft = |elevation_min_m = |elevation_min_ft = <!-- Population -----------------------> |population_as_of = 2021 |population_footnotes = |population_note = |population_total = 239
|timezone = CET |utc_offset = +1 |timezone_DST = CEST |utc_offset_DST = +2 |coor_type = <!-- can be used to specify what the coordinates refer to --> |coordinates = {{Coord|41|02|N|21|16|E|display=title|region:MK_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki}} <!-- Area/postal codes & others --------> |postal_code_type = |postal_code = |area_code = |website = |blank_name = |blank_info = |blank1_name = |blank1_info = |footnotes = }} '''Krstoar''' (Macedonian Cyrillic: ''Крстоари'') is a village {{convert|4.51|km|mi}} away from Bitola, which is the second-largest city in North Macedonia. It used to be part of the former municipality of Bistrica.
==Name== The village is known as ''Kërstoari'' in Albanian. ==Demographics== Krstoar is attested in the Ottoman defter of 1467/68 as a village in the vilayet of Manastir. The inhabitants attested almost entirely bore typical Slavic anthroponyms, with one instance of the Albanian anthroponym ''Gjon'' (son of ''Janko'') also present.<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=28|quote=KRSTOHOR Gon, i biri i Janko-s; Dimitri, i biri i Janko-s; Vllado, vëllai i Dimitri-t; Neno, i biri i Dimitri-t; Dimitri Gruban; Dimitri, i biri i Pejo-s; Stançe, i biri i Dimitri-t; Dimitri, i biri i P-l-s-k-o; Kojo, i biri i P-l-s-k-o. }}</ref>
As of the 2021 census, Krstoar had 239 residents with the following ethnic composition:<ref>[https://makstat.stat.gov.mk/PXWeb/pxweb/en/MakStat/MakStat__Popisi__Popis2021__NaselenieVkupno__PodatociNaselenie/T1503P21.px/table/tableViewLayout2/?rxid=cc8e0490-07b6-4002-adf4-9b4891b66655 Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021]</ref> *Macedonians 200 *Albanians 21 *Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 11 *Turks 5 *Serbs 2
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 167 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. 314.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://makedonija.name/municipalities/bitola/krstoar|title = Krstoar Bitola, Macedonia - Krstoar Bitola | Krstoar map}}</ref> *Macedonians 164 *Serbs 2 *Others 1
=== Families === Krstoar is a Macedonian village. In 1951, families in village are:<ref>{{Cite book|last=Trifunoski|first=Jovan, F.|title=Bitoljsko-Prilepska Kotlina|year=1998|location=Belgrade}}</ref>
Gjorevci (11 houses in village), Jonovci (8 houses), Kundevci (7 houses), Josifovci (3 houses), Cancukovci (3 houses), Mockovci (2 houses), Kotevi (2 houses) and Geldanovci (1 house) all of them natives in village; Sitnovci (4 houses) they settled from somewhere in 18 century; Vidinovci (8 houses) settled from Prespa; Gulevci (8 houses) settled from Albania; Mosheni (4 houses) settled from village Setina, near Florina; Domazetovci (2 houses) settled from Klobucista near Florina; Trifunovci (2 houses) settled from village Bukovo; Apostolovci (1 house) and Petrevci (1 house) settled from elsewhere; Milosevci (2 houses) settled after 1913 from Prespa, Ristovi (1 house) settled from Bitola.
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