title: Bazernik
text: # Bazernik
  
  Bazernik (Macedonian Cyrillic: Базерник) is a village in the municipality of Demir Hisar, North Macedonia.
  
  ## Demographics
  
  In the 1467/1468 defter the village had 28 households, 1 bachelor and 1 widow. The household heads almost entirely bore Slavic names, while a small minority Albanian.
  
  In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Bazernik was inhabited by 350 Christian Bulgarians.
  
  According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 67 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:
  
  * Macedonians 52
  