Tašmaruništa

Tašmaruništa
Village
Ташмаруништа
Tašmaruništa is located in North Macedonia
Tašmaruništa
Tašmaruništa
Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 41°16′18″N 20°38′22″E / 41.27167°N 20.63944°E / 41.27167; 20.63944
Country North Macedonia
Region Southwestern
Municipality Struga
Elevation
997 m (3,271 ft)
Population
 (2002)
 • Total
210
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code+38946
Car platesSU
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Tašmaruništa (Macedonian: Ташмаруништа) is a village in the municipality of Struga, North Macedonia.

Name

The placename Tašmaruništa is a hybrid toponym formed from two terms, the Turkish word Taş meaning stone or rock alongside the Slavic Moruništa, which itself is formed from the word Morun and the suffix išta.[1] Within an older map done by the village is recorded as Moroništa and Pianka Włodzimierz notes that it would not be inconceivable that the sound u has been substituted for o.[1] Regarding the term Morun, Włodzimierz proposes that it could be from the word Moruna, a term for sturgeon fish (Acipenser huso) or from Morun, a personal name stemming from the Greco-Latin Maron, and similar to the name Marin.[1] Of the second context, Włodzimierz contends it could have served as patronymic name as in the nearby toponym Labuništa - Albanopolis alongside the structural function and transformation of the suffix.[1] Włodzimierz notes more research of older documentation needs to be done to be able to resolve that issue.[1]

History

During the mid-fourteenth century, Aromanians possibly were the inhabitants of Golema Vlaj, a settlement that was partially north of Struga located on the current site of modern Tašmaruništa.[2]

Demographics

In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Tašmaruništa was inhabited by 400 Bulgarian Christians and 70 Muslim Albanians.[3]

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 210 inhabitants.[4] Ethnic groups in the village include:[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Włodzimierz, Pianka (1970). Toponomastikata na Ohridsko-Prespanskiot bazen. Institut za makedonski jazik "Krste Misirkov". p. 77. "Благодарение на Хан, јасен ни е постанокот на името Ташморуништа. Тоа се состои од турскиот збор таш 'камен, карпа' и македонски топоним Моруништа (Хан бележи на картата: Moronischta, но таква замена на u>o соседство на три сонанта не е ништо чудно, поготово што тоа го забележал странец). Во топонимов се изделува суф. -ишта и основата на именката моруна вид риба "Acipenser huso", или пак основата Морун- која можеме да ја споредиме со основите содржани во топонимите Лабуништа и Солун (с.63), која би одговарала на лат. - грчко Maron- (спор. Марона кај Тахос). Тоа можело да биде лично име (спор. сх име Марин) и тогаш би имале овде патронимично име, или пак некој топоним (спор. Лабуништа - Albanopolis), што би било пример за структурална функција на овој суфикс. Да се реши ова прашање би требало да располагаме со записи од постаро време."
  2. ^ Koukoudis, Asterios (2003). The Vlachs: Metropolis and Diaspora. Thessaloniki: Zitros Publications. ISBN 9789607760869. p. 423. "in the mid-fourteenth century..."; pp. 423-424. "In the same period, Vlachs probably made up the population of Golema Vlaj, which was slightly to the north of Struga on the site of the modern village of Tašmaruništa."
  3. ^ Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 253.
  4. ^ 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.131.