Banište (Macedonian: Баниште, Albanian: Banisht) is a village in the municipality of Debar, North Macedonia.

Banište (Banishta) is recorded in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a village in the vilayet of Upper Dibra.

The settlement had a total of 10 households with the anthroponymy attested being of a mixed Albanian-Slavic character with instances of Slavicisation (e.g., Gjon Popovići): the brothers Gjorgo, Istanec, and Nikolla Papriçi; Kojo, son of Gjergj; Gjorgo, son of Istepan; Gjon Popovići; Dimitri, brother of the aforementioned; Progon, brother of the aforementioned; Ninec, brother of Kojo; and Istanec, brother of Gjorgo.

[1][clarification needed] As of the 2021 census, Banište had 35 residents with the following ethnic composition:[2] According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 90 inhabitants.

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