Sopotsko (Macedonian: Сопотско, Albanian: Sopockë), is a village in the Resen Municipality of the Republic of North Macedonia. Sopotsko is roughly 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the municipal centre of Resen.[1]
Sopotsko
Сопотско Sopockë | |
|---|---|
Village | |
 Sopotsko | |
  Sopotsko Location within North Macedonia | |
| Coordinates: 41°05′06″N 21°03′50″E / 41.08500°N 21.06389°E | |
| Country |  North Macedonia |
| Region |  Pelagonia |
| Municipality |  Resen |
| Population (2002) | |
• Total | 222 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Area code | +389 |
| Car plates | RE |
Demographics
editThe village of Sopotsko is inhabited by an Orthodox Macedonian majority and a Sunni Muslim Albanian minority.[2] Sunni Albanians in Sopotsko traditionally highlighted their religious identity over a linguistic one having closer economic and social relations with Turks and Torbeš in the region and being distant from Orthodox Macedonians.[2] Over time these differences have disappeared through intermarriage, closer communal and cultural relations with Bektashi and other Sunni Prespa Albanian communities in the region.[2]
As of the 2021 census, Sopotsko had 152 residents.[3]
| Ethnic group |
census 1961 | census 1971 | census 1981 | census 1991 | census 1994 | census 2002 | census 2021 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
| Macedonians | 541 | 84.1 | 444 | 83.3 | 419 | 73.5 | 285 | 85.3 | 215 | 87.4 | 184 | 82.9 | 111 | 73.0 |
| Albanians | 56 | 8.7 | 86 | 16.1 | 125 | 21.9 | 45 | 13.5 | 30 | 12.2 | 36 | 16.2 | 31 | 20.4 |
| Turks | 44 | 6.8 | 0 | 0.0 | 5 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Serbs | 2 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.2 | 2 | 0.4 | 1 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| others | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.4 | 19 | 3.3 | 3 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources | 10 | 6.6 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 643 | 533 | 570 | 334 | 260 | 222 | 152 | |||||||
People from Sopotsko
edit- Naum Pecalev - Bekrijata (1874 - ?), rebel[4]
- Reis Shaqiri (1922 - 2006), partisan[5]
- Resul Shaqiri (1931 -), communist politician
References
edit- ^ "Sopotsko Resen, Macedonia - Sopotsko Resen | Sopotsko map".
- ^ a b c Sugarman, Jane (1997). Engendering song: Singing and subjectivity at Prespa Albanian weddings. University of Chicago Press. pp. 9–11. ISBN 9780226779720.
- ^ Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
- ^ Николов, Борис. ВМОРО - псевдоними и шифри 1893-1934, Звезди, 1999, стр.15
- ^ Македонска енциклопедија, МАНУ, Skopje, 2009, стр.1644