Nakolec

Nakolec
Наколец
Village
Nakolec with Lake Prespa in the background
Nakolec
Location within Macedonia
Coordinates: 40°53′36.39″N 21°6′31.69″E / 40.8934417°N 21.1088028°E / 40.8934417; 21.1088028
Country  Macedonia
Municipality Resen Municipality
Population (2002)
 • Total 262
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code(s) +389
Car plates RE

Nakolec (Macedonian: Наколец; Albanian: Nakolec) is a village on Lake Prespa in Resen Municipality in the Republic of Macedonia. It is located roughly 23 kilometres (14 mi) south of the municipal centre of Resen.[1]

Demographics

The village of Nakolec has a Sunni Albanian majority and a 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
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
Albanians 391 61.4 458 62.0 439 70.1 296 55.5 175 59.3 158 60.3
Turks 4 0.6 5 0.7 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
others 0 0.0 2 0.3 7 1.1 61 11.5 10 3.4 8 3.1
Total 637 739 626 533 295 262

People from Nakolec

  • Risto Vasilevski (1943 -), poet, critic, and translator[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Nakolec". Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 Sugarman, Jane (1997). Engendering song: Singing and subjectivity at Prespa Albanian weddings. University of Chicago Press. pp. 9–11. ISBN 9780226779720.
  3. ↑ 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)."
  4. ↑ Municipality of Resen
  5. ↑ Censuses of population 1948 - 2002 Archived 2013-10-14 at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ↑ "Risto Vasilevski 1991". Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage Struga. Retrieved 22 March 2014.

Coordinates: 40°54′N 21°06′E / 40.900°N 21.100°E / 40.900; 21.100

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