Rosoki () is a village in the municipality of Mavrovo and Rostuša, North Macedonia.
History
Rosoki (Radosaç) is attested in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a village in the ziamet of Reka which was under the authority of Karagöz Bey. The village had a total of 4 households and the anthroponymy attested was mixed Albanian-Slavic in character, with instances of Slavicisation, e.g Lekë Likarovići.
The entire Christian population of the village is under the rule of Bulgarian Exarchate. According to the Secretary of the Exarchate Dimitar Mishev ("La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne”) in 1905 there were 600 Bulgarian Exarchists in Rosoki and a Bulgarian school operated in the village.Brancoff, D. M. La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne : Avec deux cartes etnographiques. Paris, Librarie Plon, Plon-Nourrit et Cie, Imprimeurs-Éditeurs, 1905. p. 184-185.
According to statistics from the newspaper Debarski Glas in 1911 in Rosoki there were 46 Bulgarian Exarchate houses.Дебърски глас, година 2, брой 38, 3 април 1911, стр. 2.
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Rosoki (Raosoki) was inhabited by 450 Christian Bulgarians.Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 263.
Demographics
As of the 2021 census, Rosoki had 1 resident with the following ethnic composition:Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021 Macedonians 1
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. 135.
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