Neprošteno

Neprošteno (Непроштено, Nepreshten) is a village in the municipality of Tearce, North Macedonia.

History


According to Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov in 1900 the village was home to 680 inhabitants of which 580 were Bulgarian Orthodox and 100 Albanian Muslims.

According to revolutionary and ethnographer Gyorche Petrov Neprošteno is divided by a small river into 2 mahalas, one Macedonian the other inhabited by Albanians who at the time were characterized as being involved in banditry. The Macedonian mahala is on the right side and the Albanian on the left side of the river, the village exported beans, fruit but most famously chestnuts, and had two churches, one old and one new.

According to the 1942 Albanian census, Neprošteno was inhabited by 584 Macedonians, 316 Muslim Albanians and 178 Serbs.

During the inter-ethnic conflict in 2001 4 ethnic Macedonian inhabitants of the village were kidnapped by the NLA whose whereabouts are unknown to this day.

Demographics
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 1,309 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:


 * Albanians 898
 * Macedonians 405
 * Serbs 2
 * Others 4