Barbaros (also known as Barbaras) is a former village in the Makedonski Brod Municipality, in the area of Poreče, near the town of Makedonski Brod in North Macedonia. The village no longer exists, and only remnants of it remain.
The village was located near the locality Barbaros, at the eponymous pass on the road Makedonski Brod-Prilep, at the crossing from Porečе to Prilep Plain.
History Barbaros is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kičevo. The village had a total of 62 households.Stojanovski, A. (1989). Македонија во турското средновековие: од крајот на XIV--почетокот на XVIII век. Северна Македонија: Култура. pg 355
In the 19th century, Barbaros was a village in the nahiyah of Poreče of the kaza of Kičevo of the Ottoman Empire.
Demographics The village is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kičevo. The village had a total of 57 houses, excluding bachelors (mucerred).Qerim Dalipi. "NAHIJA E KËRÇOVËS SIPAS REGJISTRIMIT TË VITEVE 1467–1468 (Aspekte shoqërore)". Gjurmime Albanologjike – Seria e shkencave historike 47:29–48.
The "Ethnography of Adrianople, Monastir and Thessalonica" states that in 1873 the village had 6 households with 25 Bulgarian Exarchists.„Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 г." (Macedonia and Adrianople Region. Demographics Statistics from 1873) (in Bulgarian). Macedonian Science Institute, Sofia, 1995, pp. 74–75.
Landmarks and sights In the outskirts of the village, there is the archaeological site of a Medieval settlement and a castle called Kula (lit. Tower).
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See also Makedonski Brod Municipality Poreče
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Barbaros on Google Maps