 The Albanian population of Dihovo, when inhabited in the past was populated by Tosks, a subgroup of southern Albanians.In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Dihovo was inhabited by 200 Bulgarian Christians and 260 Muslim Albanians.According to the statistics of Geographers Dimitri Mishev and D. M. Brancoff, the town had a total Christian population of 560 in 1905, of which all were Patriarchist Bulgarians.