Desovo

Desovo (Macedonian: Десово, Albanian: Desovë) is a village in the municipality of Dolneni, North Macedonia.

[1] In September 1912, Serb majors M. Vasić and Vasilije Trbić, a Chetnik commander operating from Porečje region, gathered 30 Chetniks and travelled to the village of Desovo where they shot 111 Albanian men and razed the village.

[1] The event led to the first wave of migrations of Desovo Albanians mainly to Turkey, with some others going abroad to the United States and Australia.

[1] Due to the sociopolitical pressures experienced within post war communist Yugoslavia under Aleksandar Ranković, between 1963 and 1968 most of the remaining Albanians in Desovo migrated to Turkey.

[1] In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Desovo was inhabited by 40 Bulgarian Christians, 75 Romani and 625 Muslim Albanians.