title: Rakitnica, Demir Hisar
text: # Rakitnica, Demir Hisar
  
  Rakitnica (Macedonian: Ракитница) is a village in the municipality of Demir Hisar, North Macedonia.
  
  ## Demographics
  
  in the 1467/1468 Ottoman defter, the village had 33 households and 1 bachelor. The onomastics consisted mostly of Christian Slavic anthroponyms, with around a fifth being Albanian. In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Rakitnica was inhabited by 255 Christian Bulgarians.
  
  According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 37 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:
  
  * Macedonians 37
  