Vrutok
Village in Polog, North Macedonia
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Vrutok (Macedonian: Вруток, Albanian: Vërtok) is a village in the municipality of Gostivar, North Macedonia. The village is situated on the slopes of Mount Bistra by the Korab mountains, near the town of Gostivar.
Vrutok
Вруток Vërtok | |
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Village | |
Airview of the village Vrutok | |
  Vrutok Location within North Macedonia | |
| Coordinates: 41°46′N 20°50′E | |
| Country |  North Macedonia |
| Region |  Polog |
| Municipality |  Gostivar |
| Population (2021) | |
• Total | 640 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Car plates | GV |
| Website | . |
Geography
Its importance belongs to the water streams where the river Vardar (388 km), a major river in North Macedonia and Greece, rises. Nearby is the hydro power plant Vrutok with 49 MW capacity.
Demographics
Vrutok is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 42 Christian households, 4 widows and 2 bachelors.[1]
According to ethnographer Vasil Kanchov's data from 1900, the village was inhabited by 460 Christian Bulgarians, 300 Muslim Albanians and 24 Roma people.[2]
According to the 1942 Albanian census, Vrutok was inhabited by 929 Muslim Albanians, 128 Serbs and 150 Bulgarians.[3]
As of the 2021 census, Vrutok had 640 residents with the following ethnic composition:[4]
- Albanians 369
- Macedonians 203
- Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 56
- Turks 9
- Others 3
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 1127 inhabitants.[5] Ethnic groups in the village include:[5]
- Albanians 846
- Macedonians 276
- Serbs 3
- Others 2
Notable people
- Jovan Trifunoski, geographer and anthropologist[6]
