Brusnik, Bitola

Brusnik (Macedonian: Брусник, Greek: Μπρούσνικ) is a village in the Bitola Municipality of North Macedonia.

Erekovci is attested in the Ottoman defter of 1467/68 as a village in the vilayet of Manastir.

The inhabitants attested largely bore mixed Slavic-Albanian anthroponyms, such as Којо son of Коllar, Gon son of Çerp, Çerp son of Bajo and Gon Poçkar.

[1] According to the statistics of Geographers Dimitri Mishev and D. M. Brancoff, the town had a total Christian population of 944 in 1905, consisting of 488 Patriarchist Bulgarians and 456 Exarchist Bulgarians.

[3] Tale Ognenovski - clarinetist and composer This Bitola location article is a stub.

Panorama of the village Brusnik, 1923