Virovo () is a village in the municipality of Demir Hisar, North Macedonia. It used to be part of the former municipality of Sopotnica.
Demographics Virovo is attested in the Ottoman defter of 1467/68 as a village in the vilayet of Manastir. The village had 42 households 6 widows and 2 bachelors. The majority of the inhabitants attested bore typical Christian Slavic anthroponyms, while over a quarter of them bore Albanian or mixed Slavic-Albanian anthroponyms.
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Belče was inhabited by 350 Christian Bulgarians.Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 236.
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 151 inhabitants, all of whom were ethnic Macedonians.Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 175.
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