Dolna Bela Crkva

Dolna Bela Crkva
Долна Бела Црква
Bollocërkë e Poshtme
Village
Panoramic view of the village Dolna Bela Crkva
Dolna Bela Crkva
Location within Macedonia
Coordinates: 41°02′12″N 21°01′52″E / 41.03667°N 21.03111°E / 41.03667; 21.03111
Country  Macedonia
Municipality Resen Municipality
Population (2002)
 • Total 237
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code(s) +389
Car plates RE

Dolna Bela Crkva (Macedonian: Долна Бела Црвка, meaning Lower White Church; Albanian: Bollocërkë e Poshtme) is a village in the Resen Municipality of the Republic of Macedonia, north of Lake Prespa. The village, located roughly 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from the municipal centre of Resen,[1] has 237 residents.[2]

Demographics

Dolna Bela Crkva has an Orthodox ethnic Macedonian majority, with a significant Muslim Albanian Sunni and Bektashi minority, of whom the latter are known locally as Kolonjarë.[3][4] Sunni Albanians in Dolna Bela Crkva traditionally highlighted their religious identity over a linguistic one having closer economic and social relations with Turks and Macedonian Muslims in the region and being distant from Orthodox Macedonians.[4] Over time these differences have disappeared through intermarriage, closer communal and cultural relations with Bektashi and other Sunni Prespa Albanian communities in the region.[4]

Ethnic
group		 census 1961 census 1971 census 1981 census 1991 census 1994 census 2002
Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number %
Macedonians 222 65.1 230 56.9 259 64.8 215 70.7 167 67.1 156 65.8
Albanians 119 34.9 173 42.8 138 34.5 82 27.0 82 32.9 81 34.2
others 0 0.0 1 0.3 3 0.8 7 2.3 0 0.0 0 0.0
Total 341 404 400 304 249 237

References

  1. ↑ "Dolna Bela Crkva". Retrieved 24 August 2013.
  2. ↑ Municipality of Resen
  3. ↑ Censuses of population 1948 - 2002 Archived October 14, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
  4. 1 2 3 Sugarman, Jane (1997). Engendering song: Singing and subjectivity at Prespa Albanian weddings. University of Chicago Press. pp. 9–11. ISBN 9780226779720.

Coordinates: 41°02′N 21°01′E / 41.033°N 21.017°E / 41.033; 21.017

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