Barovo, Sopište

According to the 1467-68 Ottoman defter, Barovo appears as being inhabited by an Orthodox Albanian population. Some families had a mixed Slav-Albanian anthroponomy - usually a Slavic first name and an Albanian last name or last names with Albanian patronyms and Slavic suffixes.

The names are: Staj-ko the son of Rusha, Stepan the son of Stajko, Niko the son of Dimitri, Vlado the son of Lazor, Doba the son of Rush, Stepan the son of Krydosa (Kry- Dosac), Minço his brother, Daba son of Persuka (Petr Suka), Damjan son of Vaso.^[1]

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 23 inhabitants.^[2] Ethnic groups in the village include:^[2]

• Albanians 13
• Macedonians 9
• Serbs 1