Bačišta

Bačišta is a village in the municipality of Kičevo, North Macedonia. It used to be part of the former Zajas Municipality. The village has an Albanian school and a mosque.
The village population consists of a traditionally Albanien Muslim speaking population that is surrounded by Muslim Albanian villages. population is Albanian. Common language and origin with Macedonian Christians does not play a role for a majority of Macedonian Muslims regarding self-identification which is based on common religion . In the 1990s parents from Bačišta refused to send their children to the local village Macedonian language school and the introduction of Albanian schooling was attempted. Inhabitants of Bačišta have claimed to be Macedonianized Albanians. Blame on the linguistic and identity shift in the 1990s regarding Bačišta has been placed on the Albanian political party, the PDP and its Kičevo branch however the village has been neglected economically and developmentally over time. In 1992 Albanian schooling until the 8th grade was introduced in Bačišta.

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