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.[1]
In the early 19th century population of Dihovo was populated by Tosks, a subgroup of southern Albanians.[2]
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Dihovo was inhabited by 200 Christian Bulgarians and 260 Muslim Albanians.[3] 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.[4] It also had 1 Greek school.[4]
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.[5] Ethnic groups in the village include:[5]
In 1951, the families in village were:[6]
- 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.
North Macedonia