| Sopotsko
Сопотско Sopockë | |
|---|---|
| Village | |
 Sopotsko | |
  SopotskoLocation within North Macedonia | |
| Coordinates: 41°05′06″N 21°03′50″E / 41.08500°N 21.06389°E / 41.08500; 21.06389 | |
| Country |  North Macedonia |
| Region |  Pelagonia |
| Municipality |  Resen |
| Population | |
| • Total | 222 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Area code | +389 |
| Car plates | RE |
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.
Demographics
The village of Sopotsko is inhabited by an Orthodox Macedonian majority and a Sunni Muslim Albanian minority. 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. Over time these differences have disappeared through intermarriage, closer communal and cultural relations with Bektashi and other Sunni Prespa Albanian communities in the region.
As of the 2021 census, Sopotsko had 152 residents.
| 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
- Naum Pecalev - Bekrijata (1874 - ?), rebel
- Reis Shaqiri (1922 - 2006), partisan
- Resul Shaqiri (1931 -), communist politician
References
- "Sopotsko Resen, Macedonia - Sopotsko Resen | Sopotsko map".
- ^ 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
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41°05′N 21°04′E / 41.083°N 21.067°E / 41.083; 21.067
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