Kočište () is a village in the municipality of Demir Hisar, North Macedonia.
Demographics In the 1467/1468 Ottoman defter, the village appears as having 25 households and 2 bachelors. Of the inhabitants attested, one half bore typical Slavic anthroponyms while the other carried Albanian or mixed Slavic-Albanian ones.
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Kočište was inhabited by 200 Muslim Albanians and 120 Christian Bulgarians.Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 236.
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 266 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. 94.
Macedonians 38
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