Nakolec (Macedonian: Наколец; Albanian: Nakolec) is a village on Lake Prespa in Resen Municipality in the Republic of North Macedonia. It is located roughly 23 kilometres (14 mi) south of the municipal centre of Resen.[1]
Nakolec
Наколец | |
|---|---|
Village | |
 Nakolec with Lake Prespa in the background | |
  Nakolec Location within North Macedonia | |
| Coordinates: 40°53′36.39″N 21°6′31.69″E / 40.8934417°N 21.1088028°E | |
| Country |  North Macedonia |
| Region |  Pelagonia |
| Municipality |  Resen |
| Population (2021) | |
• Total | 212 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Area code | +389 |
| Car plates | RE |
Demographics
editThe village of Nakolec has a Sunni Albanian majority and an Orthodox Macedonian minority.[2] A small number of Albanian speaking Muslim Romani used to live in Nakolec which during the latter decades of the 20th century have migrated to Ohrid and Resen.[2] In the late Ottoman period, a few Turks and some Bektashi Albanians, known locally as Kolonjarë, used to also reside in the village of Nakolec (Turkish: Nakoleç).[3][2]
Nakolec has 262 residents as of the most recent national census in 2002.[4] The village has long had a multiethnic population.[5]
| Ethnic group |
census 1961 | census 1971 | census 1981 | census 1991 | census 1994 | census 2002 | census 2021 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
| Macedonians | 242 | 40.0 | 274 | 37.1 | 180 | 28.8 | 160 | 30.0 | 94 | 31.9 | 81 | 30.9 | 78 | 36.8 |
| Albanians | 391 | 61.4 | 458 | 62.0 | 439 | 70.1 | 296 | 55.5 | 175 | 59.3 | 158 | 60.3 | 115 | 54.3 |
| Turks | 4 | 0.6 | 5 | 0.7 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Roma | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 16 | 3.0 | 16 | 5.4 | 15 | 5.7 | 7 | 3.3 |
| others | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.3 | 7 | 1.1 | 61 | 11.5 | 10 | 3.4 | 8 | 3.1 | 4 | 1.9 |
| Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources | 8 | 3.8 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 637 | 739 | 626 | 533 | 295 | 262 | 212 | |||||||
Gallery
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Entrance (right) into Nakolec from main road -
Architecture of Nakolec -
Architecture of Nakolec -
Nakolec village square -
Architecture of Nakolec -
Mosque of Nakolec -
River of Nakolec and Sufi shrine (centre) in the background -
Sufi Muslim shrine in Nakolec -
Orthodox church entrance and bell tower of Nakolec -
Orthodox church and cemetery of Nakolec
People from Nakolec
edit- Risto Vasilevski (1943 -), poet, critic, and translator[6]
References
edit- ^ "Nakolec". Retrieved 31 July 2013.
- ^ a b c Sugarman, Jane (1997). Engendering song: Singing and subjectivity at Prespa Albanian weddings. University of Chicago Press. pp. 9–11. ISBN 9780226779720.
- ^ Włodzimierz, Pianka (1970). Toponomastikata na Ohridsko-Prespanskiot bazen. Institut za makedonski jazik "Krste Misirkov". p. 128. "Горна Преспа... Во 1900 год. Турци имало само во Наколец (30 лица)."
- ^ Municipality of Resen
- ^ Censuses of population 1948 - 2002 Archived 2013-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Risto Vasilevski 1991". Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage Struga. Retrieved 22 March 2014.