Raotince
Village in Polog, North Macedonia
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Raotince (Macedonian: Раотинце) is a village located about 10 miles (14 km) northeast from the city of Tetovo in Jegunovce Municipality, North Macedonia.
Raotince
Раотинце | |
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Village | |
View of the village | |
  Raotince Location within North Macedonia | |
| Country |  North Macedonia |
| Region |  Polog |
| Municipality |  Jegunovce |
| Population (2002) | |
• Total | 565 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Car plates | TE |
| Website | . |
History
Raotince is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 25 Christian households and 2 bachelors.[1]
West of present-day Raotince is the Late Antiquity archaeological site Arbino, a former village from which many archaeological remains have been excavated.[2] Its etymological formation stems from the old South Slavic ethnonym for Albanians, Arban.[3]
Demographics
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 565 inhabitants.[4] Ethnic groups in the village include:[4]
- Macedonians: 559
- Albanians: 4
- Serbs: 1
- others: 1
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Raotince (Raotinci) was inhabited by 360 Christian Bulgarians.[5]