Bačišta
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Bačišta
Бачишта Baçisht | |
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Village | |
  Bačišta Location within North Macedonia | |
| Coordinates: 41°36′N 20°54′E / 41.600°N 20.900°E | |
| Country |  North Macedonia |
| Region |  Southwestern |
| Municipality |  Kičevo |
| Population (2021) | |
• Total | 470 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Car plates | KI |
| Website | . |
Bačišta (Macedonian: Бачишта, Albanian: Baçisht) is a village in the municipality of Kičevo, North Macedonia. It used to be part of the former Zajas Municipality. The village has an Albanian school and a mosque.[1]
The village is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kırçova. The village had a total of 34 houses, excluding bachelors (mucerred).[2]
The villages Albanian muslim Population was introduced/ kickstarted by 2 Brothers of an Albanian family of Zajas, who came to an orthodox slavic speaking village.[3]The names of the two brothers were Nezir and Ibraim[3]
The village population consists of a traditionally Albanian Muslim speaking population that is surrounded by Muslim Albanian villages.[4] The population consists of ethnic Albanians.[5] In the 1990s parents from Bačišta refused to send their children to the local village Macedonian language school and the introduction of Albanian schooling was attempted.[4][5] Inhabitants of Bačišta have claimed to be Macedonianized Albanians.[4] In 1992 Albanian schooling until the 8th grade was introduced in Bačišta.[5]