Raotince () is a village located about 10 miles (14 km) northeast from the city of Tetovo in Jegunovce Municipality, North Macedonia.
History Raotince is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 25 Christian households and 2 bachelors.Турски документи за историјата на македонскиот народ кн.4, Методија Соколоски, д-р Александар Стојановски, Скопје 1971
West of present-day Raotince is the Late Antiquity archaeological site Arbino, a former village from which many archaeological remains have been excavated. Its etymological formation stems from the old South Slavic ethnonym for Albanians, Arban.
Demographics According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 565 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. 245. Macedonians: 559 Albanians: 4 Serbs: 1 others: 1
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Raotince (Raotinci) was inhabited by 360 Christian Bulgarians.Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 211.
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