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 with Lake Prespa in the background
Nakolec is located in North Macedonia
Nakolec
Nakolec
Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 40°53′36.39″N 21°6′31.69″E
Country North Macedonia
Region Pelagonia
Municipality Resen
Population
 (2021)
 • Total212
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code+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 census 2021
Number  % 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 78 36.8
Albanians 391 61.4 458 62.0 439 70.1 296 55.5 175 59.3 158 60.3 115 54.3
Turks 4 0.6 5 0.7 0 0.0 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 7 3.3
others 0 0.0 2 0.3 7 1.1 61 11.5 10 3.4 8 3.1 4 1.9
Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 8 3.8
Total 637 739 626 533 295 262 212
  • Entrance (right) into Nakolec from main road
    Entrance (right) into Nakolec from main road
  • Architecture of Nakolec
    Architecture of Nakolec
  • Architecture of Nakolec
    Architecture of Nakolec
  • Nakolec village square
    Nakolec village square
  • Architecture of Nakolec
    Architecture of Nakolec
  • Mosque of Nakolec
    Mosque of Nakolec
  • River of Nakolec and Sufi shrine (centre) in the background
    River of Nakolec and Sufi shrine (centre) in the background
  • Sufi Muslim shrine in Nakolec
    Sufi Muslim shrine in Nakolec
  • Orthodox church entrance and bell tower of Nakolec
    Orthodox church entrance and bell tower of Nakolec
  • Orthodox church and cemetery 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.
  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.

40°54′N 21°06′E

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