Nakolec

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
Country North Macedonia
Region Pelagonia
Municipality Resen
Population
 (2002)
 • Total262
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code(s)+389
Car platesRE

Demographics

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

References
  1. "Nakolec". Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  2. Sugarman, Jane (1997). Engendering song: Singing and subjectivity at Prespa Albanian weddings. University of Chicago Press. pp. 9–11. ISBN 9780226779720.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  3. Włodzimierz, Pianka (1970). Toponomastikata na Ohridsko-Prespanskiot bazen. Institut za makedonski jazik "Krste Misirkov". p. 128.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) "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.

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