Butel municipality
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| Butel municipality Општина Бутел |
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Butel (Macedonian: Бутел) is one of the 10 municipalities the make up the city of Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. In a cemetery in Butel is where George Zorbas's grave is located. George Zorbas was the character upon whom Nikos Kazantzakis based his fictional Alexis Zorbas, the protagonist of his novel Zorba the Greek.
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[edit] Geography
Butel borders Gazi Baba municipality to the south-east, Čair municipality to the south, Karpoš municipality to the south-west, Šuto Orizari municipality and Čučer-Sandevo municipality to the north-west, and Lipkovo municipality to the north-east.
[edit] Demographics
According to the last National census from 2002 Butel has 36,154 inhabitants.
Ethnic groups in the municipality include:
- Macedonians = 22,506
- Albanians = 9,107
- Turks = 1,304
- Serbs = 1,033
- others.
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