Mavrovo ( ) is a village and tourist resort in the mountainous region of western North Macedonia. It is located in the Mavrovo and Rostuša Municipality. The St Nicholas Church in Mavrovo was built in 1850. It was submerged in the local lake in 1953, but due to droughts in the 21st century it has largely appeared out of the lake.
Demographics Mavrovo is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 20 Christian households and 2 bachelors.Турски документи за историјата на македонскиот народ кн.4, Методија Соколоски, д-р Александар Стојановски, Скопје 1971
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village was inhabited by 1222 Bulgarians, 12 Muslim Albanians and 25 Vlachs.Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 213. Kanchov notes the village as being bilingual in Albanian and Bulgarian, with the latter being the language spoken in the househould.Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 213. According to a 1929 ethnographic map by Russian Slavist Afanasy Selishchev, Mavrovo was a Bulgarian village.Афанасий Селищев. „Полог и его болгарское население. Исторические, этнографические и диалектологические очерки северо-западной Македонии“. – София, 1929, стр. 26.
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 166 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 136.
Macedonians 163 Serbs 3
As of the 2021 census, Mavrovo had 212 residents with the following ethnic composition:Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021 Macedonians 200 Others 10 Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 2
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