title: Brusnik, Bitola
text: # Brusnik, Bitola
  
  Brusnik (Macedonian: Брусник, Greek: Μπρούσνικ) is a village in the Bitola Municipality of North Macedonia.
  
  ## Demographics
  
  Erekovci is attested in the Ottoman defter of 1467/68 as a village in the vilayet of Manastir. The inhabitants attested largely bore mixed Slavic-Albanian anthroponyms, such as Којо son of Коllar, Gon son of Çerp, Çerp son of Bajo and Gon Poçkar.
  
  According to the statistics of Geographers Dimitri Mishev and D. M. Brancoff, the town had a total Christian population of 944 in 1905, consisting of 488 Patriarchist Bulgarians and 456 Exarchist Bulgarians. It also had 2 schools, 1 Bulgarian and 1 Greek.
  
  According to the 2002 census, total population is 241.
  
  ## Notable people
  
  Tale Ognenovski - clarinetist and composer
  
  