Kočišta () is an abandoned village in the municipality of Centar Župa, North Macedonia.
Demographics Kočišta (Коçishtë) is recorded in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a village in the vilayet of Upper Dibra, part of the timar of Muhidin. The settlement was recorded as abandoned.
According to Ottoman tahrir defters from the 1520s, 16 villages (all present-day Centar Župa villages) associated with Kala-i Kodžadžik had no Muslim population. However, the Muslim population increased in subsequent years. This was likely part of the Islamization of Macedonia under Turkish rule.367 NUMARALI MUHÂSEBE-İ VİLÂYET-İ RÛM-İLİ DEFTERİ İLE 94 ve 1078 NUMARALI AVLONYA LİVÂSI TAHRÎR DEFTERLERİ (926-1520/937-1530) "In the 1520 and 1530 year tahrir: Dizdār, nefer 1 Kethudā, nefer 1 İmām, nefer 1 Merdān-ı kal‘a, neferan 28 Kurā 16 Mezra‘a 1 Hāne-i müslim 1 Mücerred-i müslim 1 Hāne-i gebrān (Christian) 635 Mücerred-i gebrān 67 Bīve 26 Hāsıl 47.035 According to the Tahrir defter, Kocacık and its villages were in 1530 1-Kocacık kl. 2- Gorenci 3-Pariş 4-Boroşiniçe 5-Çirnibok 6-Yukarı Papranik 7-Aşağı Papranik 8-Koçişte 9-Breştani 10-Novak 11-Aşağı Elişiçe 12-Gorna Elişiçe 13-Osolniçe 14-Porovalenik 15-Vilasik 16-Tırnovnik" According to Vasil Kanchov's statistics in his book Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics, 180 Bulgarian Christians and 175 Bulgarian Muslims lived in Kočišta in 1900.Кѫнчовъ, Василъ. Македония. Етнография и статистика. София, Българското книжовно дружество, 1900. . с. 261. In the 1901 Ethnographic Map of the Bitola Vilayet, produced by the Sofia Cartography Institute, Kočišta part of the Sanjak of Dibra—is depicted as a village of 60 households with a mixed population of Bulgarians, Pomaks, Albanians, and Turks.Етнографска карта на Битолскиот вилает (каталози на населби, забелешки и карта во четири дела). Скопје, Каламус, 2017. с. 44. (на македонска литературна норма)
The village when inhabited in past times had a Torbeš population.
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 0 inhabitants.Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 189.
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