In the early Ottoman period, Musinci was one of several villages in the Pelagonia plain settled by nomadic Turkomen tribes from Anatolia during 1475–1543.[1]
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Musinci was inhabited by of whom 450 people are Turks, 80 Bulgarian Christians and 10 Romani.[2]
On the Ethnographic Map of the Bitola Vilayet of the Cartographic Institute in Sofia from 1901, Musinci appears as a mixed village of Bulgarians, Albanians and Turks in the Prilep Kaza of the Bitola Sanjak with 83 houses.[3]
In the 1905 Austrian ethnographic map of the region of Macedonia, Musinci appears as being inhabited by an Exarchist Orthodox Macedonian Slavic majority as well as a Turkish Muslim and Orthodox Christian Albanian minority.[4]
The Yugoslav census of 1953 recorded 1222 people of whom 1200 were Turks, 18 Macedonians, 1 Albanian and 3 others.[5] The 1961 Yugoslav census recorded 575 people of whom 480 were Macedonians, 90 Turks, 4 Albanians and 7 others.[5] The 1971 census recorded 396 people of whom 361 were Macedonians, 31 Turks, 1 Albanian and 3 others.[5] The 1981 Yugoslav census recorded 388 people of whom 353 were Macedonians, 21 Turks, 13 Bosniaks and 2 others.[5] The Macedonian census of 1994 recorded 309 people of whom 284 were Macedonians, 24 Turks and 1 Albanian.[5]
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 302 inhabitants.[6] Ethnic groups in the village include:[6]
North Macedonia
Pelagonia
Mogila