Otišani

Otišani (Отишани) is a village in the municipality of Debar, North Macedonia.

Name
The village in Albanian is known as Hotishani.

Demographics
Otišani (Hotishani) is attested in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a village in the timar of Hizir Muriqi (possibly, Maziqi or Mazhiqi) in the vilayet of Dulgoberda. The village had a total of five households and the anthroponyms recorded depict a mixed Albanian-Slavic character, for example, among the household heads a certain Gjergj Karlovići is attested. Otišani has traditionally been inhabited by a Torbeš population.

According to the 1942 Albanian census, Otišani was inhabited by 263 Albanians. According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 530 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:


 * Macedonians 302
 * Turks 170
 * Albanians 46
 * Others 12