Trebište

Trebishte or Trebishta (the pronunciation used by the local population is Trebishcha) is a village in the Republic of Macedonia in the municipality of Mavrovo and Rostusha, situated in the Dolna Reka district, in the East slopes of Deshat, above the gorge of Radika, between Deshat and Chaushitsa.

History

In an Ottoman defter from 1467, the village of Trebishte was recorded by the name Trabshta. According to this document, the village then had 15 Christian Orthodox families. In 1519, 55 Christian Orthodox families were recorded in the village, while in 1583, the village had 41 Christian Orthodox families and 5 Muslim families .

In the 19th century, Trebishte was a mixed Bulgarian (Christian)-Pomak (Muslim) village in the district of Dolna Reka, then part of the Ottoman Empire. In the book “Ethnographie des Vilayets d'Adrianople, de Monastir et de Salonique”, published in Constantinople in 1878, that reflects the statistics of the male population in 1873, Trebishta was noted as a village with 150 households, of which 255 were Pomaks and 144 were Bulgarians .

According to Vasil Kanchov’s statistics, in 1900, Trebishta had 192 Christian Bulgarian inhabitants and 640 Muslim Bulgarians .

The whole Christian population of the village was under the supremacy of the Bulgarian Exarchate. According to the evidences of Dimitar Mishev, the secretary of the Exarchate, in 1905, in Trebishta there were 338 Bulgarians and there was a Bulgarian school that functioned in the village .

There were 600 Muslims (Slavs) and 300 Christians in 1925.

According to the 2002 census, the village has 765 inhabitants .