Preljubište (, ) is a village in the municipality of Jegunovce, North Macedonia.
History Preljubište is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 60 Christian households, 2 bachelors and 6 widows.Турски документи за историјата на македонскиот народ кн.4, Методија Соколоски, д-р Александар Стојановски, Скопје 1971
According to the 1467-68 Ottoman defter, Preljubište exhibits a majority Orthodox Christian Slavic anthroponomy with a minority of Albanian anthroponyms also being present. Some families had a mixed Slav-Albanian anthroponomy.
Demographics According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 367 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 108.
Macedonians 270 Albanians 92 Romani 4 Serbs 1
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Preljubište was inhabited by 112 Christian Bulgarians.Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 211.
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