Viduše

Viduše is a village in the municipality of Mavrovo and Rostuša, North Macedonia.

Demographics

Viduše is attested in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a village in the ziamet of Reka which was under the authority of Karagöz Bey. The village had a total of five households and the anthroponyms recorded depict a mixed Slavic-Albanian character, with clear cases of Slavicisiation: Gjergj Miladinoviqi, Bogiçe Bogoslavi, Petka Malika and Gjure Alekoviqi.
Viduše has traditionally been inhabited by a Torbeš population.
According to the 1942 Albanian census, Viduše was inhabited by 367 Muslim Albanians.
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 185 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include: