Kišava

Kišava

Кишава
Këshavë
Kišava Кишава; Këshavë
Village
	Kišava
	Kišava Location within North Macedonia
	Coordinates: 40°52′59″N 21°19′0″E / 40.88306°N 21.31667°E
Country	North Macedonia
Region	Pelagonia
Municipality	Bitola
Elevation	881 m (2,890 ft)
Population (2021)
• Total	185
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	7223
Area code	+389 047
Car plates	BT
Website	.

Kišava, (Macedonian: Кишава, Albanian: Këshavë) is a village in the municipality of Bitola, North Macedonia. It used to be part of the former municipality of Bistrica.

Geography

Kišava is a mountainous village, close to the border with Greece.^[1] The Kišava river flows through the middle of the village.^[1] Kišava has three water springs, twelve water wells and some minor water sources surrounding the village.^[1] There are seven neighbourhoods: Xhamis, Barakalar, Grabovska, Merkan, Vilajetli, Luma and Çeshma.^[1]

History

In Ottoman documents, Kišava between the 17th and 18th centuries is listed as a Christian village.^[2] Traditions among some neighbouring villages such as Dragoš referred to that population being of Slavic Christian origin.^[2] The village population dispersed to neighbouring settlements, leaving only the church.^[2]

In the early 19th century Kišava was repopulated by Muslim Albanian Tosks who originated from southern Albania and named the village after the early church, as "kisha" in Albanian means church.^[2] During the Ottoman period, Albanian villagers had extensive pastures on the Pelister mountain range and were herdsmen who owned many goats, while some also owned fields in the nearby valley of Bitola.^[2] A few owned chifliks (hereditary estates) in nearby villages such as Graešnica, Žabeni and others.^[2] Some people migrated from the village to Turkey in 1912, others left in the early 1950s and went to the provinces of Edirne, Izmir and others.^[3]

Panorama of Kišava showing the Pelagonia valley in the far west and the Baba mountains to far east

From 1963 onward, Albanians from Kišava migrated to Dandenong, a south-eastern Melbourne suburb in Victoria, Australia.^[4]^[5] Dandenong is home to a large diaspora from Kišava and various landmarks are named after the village like Dandenong's Albanian mosque, Keshava Reserve, a park honouring Albanian immigration to the area and Keshava Grove, a residential street.^[6]^[5]^[4]

Demographics

Kišava is populated by Albanians.^[7]

As of the 2021 census, Kišava had 185 residents with the following ethnic composition:^[8]

Albanians 169
Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 16

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 308 inhabitants.^[9] Ethnic groups in the village include:^[9]

Albanians 307
Macedonians 1

Culture

As Albanian Tosks, the speech and customs of Kišava villagers differs from nearby villages Ostrec and Zlokuḱani who are Ghegs (northern Albanians).^[2] Kišava villagers had close ties with the Albanians of Nižepole, due to cultural similarities.^[2]

Religious monuments are the Teqe of Sadik Baba, a mosque built in the 19th century and a Muslim graveyard.^[2] The village has a primary school.^[10]

In 2020, some members of the Kišava diaspora from Dandenong organised an ongoing annual festival Takimet e Keshavës (Kišava gathering) in Kišava, and is attended by the diaspora during their summer holidays in the village.^[4]

Gallery

Kišava village
Traditional architecture of Kišava
Road in Kišava
Primary school in Kišava
Houses in Kišava
Mosque of Kišava
Fields of Kišava toward the Baba mountain range
Fields of Kišava
Horses grazing on Kišava mountain slope
Horse grazing in Kišava field
Kišava village

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Trifunoski 1998, p. 202.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Trifunoski 1998, p. 203.
^ Trifunoski, Jovan (1998). Bitoljsko–Prilepska kotlina antropogeografska proučavanja [Bitola-Prilep basin anthropogeographical studies]. Srpski etnografski zbornik, Volume 99. Belgrade: Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti. p. 204. ISBN 9788670252677.
^ ^a ^b ^c Rexhepi, Nizami (31 August 2021). "Historia e vendosjes së 4 mijë shqiptarëve në qytetin Dandenong" [The history of the settlement of 4 thousand Albanians in the city of Dandenong] (in Albanian). Diaspora Shqiptare. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
^ ^a ^b Ahmeti, Sharon (2017). Albanian Muslims in Secular, Multicultural Australia (Ph.D.). University of Aberdeen. pp. 55–56, 232. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
^ "After World War II". Immigration Museum. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
^ Godišen zbornik (1969). Volumes 17-18. Univerzitet vo Skopje. Geografski institut. p. 171. "Чисто албански села сега се: Арматуш, Кишава, Острец, Злокуќани, Снегово, Старо Змирново, Саждево, Јакреново, Борино, Норово, Древеник. При ослободувањето од турското владеење во 1912 г. оваа област имала повеќе чисто албански села."
^ Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
^ ^a ^b Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 69.
^ Kadriu, Zeqir (2002). Dialektet dhe të folmet e shqiptarëve në Maqedoni [Dialects and speech of Albanians in Macedonia] (in Albanian). Blana. p. 182. ISBN 9789989205408.

External links

[Trifunoski202-1] Trifunoski 1998, p. 202.

[Trifunoski203-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Trifunoski 1998, p. 203.

[Trifunoski204-3] Trifunoski, Jovan (1998). Bitoljsko–Prilepska kotlina antropogeografska proučavanja [Bitola-Prilep basin anthropogeographical studies]. Srpski etnografski zbornik, Volume 99. Belgrade: Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti. p. 204. ISBN 9788670252677.

[RexNi-4] Rexhepi, Nizami (31 August 2021). "Historia e vendosjes së 4 mijë shqiptarëve në qytetin Dandenong" [The history of the settlement of 4 thousand Albanians in the city of Dandenong] (in Albanian). Diaspora Shqiptare. Retrieved 21 August 2022.

[Ahmeti5556232-5] Ahmeti, Sharon (2017). Albanian Muslims in Secular, Multicultural Australia (Ph.D.). University of Aberdeen. pp. 55–56, 232. Retrieved 19 November 2022.

[ImmMuswii-6] "After World War II". Immigration Museum. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 July 2020.

[Godisenzbornik171-7] Godišen zbornik (1969). Volumes 17-18. Univerzitet vo Skopje. Geografski institut. p. 171. "Чисто албански села сега се: Арматуш, Кишава, Острец, Злокуќани, Снегово, Старо Змирново, Саждево, Јакреново, Борино, Норово, Древеник. При ослободувањето од турското владеење во 1912 г. оваа област имала повеќе чисто албански села."

[8] Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021

[Statisticaloffice-9] Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 69.

[Kadriu182-10] Kadriu, Zeqir (2002). Dialektet dhe të folmet e shqiptarëve në Maqedoni [Dialects and speech of Albanians in Macedonia] (in Albanian). Blana. p. 182. ISBN 9789989205408.

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