Country Albania Administrative Unit Maqellarë | County Dibër Time zone CET (UTC+1) Municipal unit Maqellarë | |
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Kërçisht i Poshtëm (Macedonian: Долно Крчиште, Dolno Krčište) is a village in the former Maqellarë Municipality in Dibër County in northeastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Dibër. It is located near the Macedonian border, on the mountain Dešat.
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History
A demographic study published in 1878, reflecting statistics of the male population from 1873, stated that the village's population consisted of 80 households with 76 Bulgarian Christians and 140 Slavic Muslims.
Nearly 40 members of the Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Volunteer Corps were natives of the village and Kërçishti i Epërm.
A 1930 report listed the village as having 50 houses.
The village today is populated by ethnic Macedonians.
References
Kërçisht i Poshtëm Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA