Labuništa
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Labuništa Лабуништа Llabunisht |
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 Labuništa
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| Coordinates: 41°16′6″N 20°35′45″E / 41.26833°N 20.59583°ECoordinates: 41°16′6″N 20°35′45″E / 41.26833°N 20.59583°E | |
| Country | Republic of Macedonia |
| Municipality | Struga municipality |
| Statistical region | Southwestern Statistical Region |
| Elevation | 758 m (2,487 ft) |
| Population (2002) | |
| • Total | 5,936 |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| Postal code | 6336 |
| Area code(s) | +389 |
| Car plates | SU |
| Website | www.labunista.com.mk . |
Labuništa (Macedonian: Лабуништа, Albanian: Llabunisht) is a village in the municipality of Struga, Republic of Macedonia.
Labuništa is a old name dating back to the time of the arrival of Slavic peoples to the Balkans. The origins of the name Labuništa are Greco-Latin from the toponym Albanopolis. Pianka Włodzimierz connects the placename Labuništa with a south-western Balkans settlement of antiquity named Albanopolis, a city marked on an ancient map by Roman geographer Ptolemy. Through metathesis the name Albanopolis entered Slavic where the suffix polis meaning city became išta with dual meanings of either being a patronymic or indicating a place. While the form Alban, a name, underwent metathesis and became Labun in Slavic of which the syllable cluster an became un giving the final form as Labun(išta).
The village of Labuništa is located at 865 m (2,838 ft) above sea level on the Eastern side of the Jablanica mountain range. The village is located around 15 km (9 mi) from Struga, the closest town. The nearest villages to Labuništa include Podgorci (1.1 km or 0.68 mi), Boroec (2.3 km or 1.4 mi), Vevčani (3.1 km or 1.9 mi) and Oktisi (4.1 km or 2.5 mi). The village is located close to the Black Drim river and the Globočica lake.
Labuništa has traditionally been inhabited by Orthodox Christian Macedonians and a Macedonian Muslim (Torbeš) population. Part of the population is Albanian.
According to Vasil Kanchov's study of Macedonia in 1900, "Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics", (Bulgarian: Македония. Етнография и статистика, Makedonija. Etnografija i statistika), counted the village as having 660 Bulgarian Christian and 800 Muslim (Torbeš) inhabitants.
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