Pustec Municipality

Pustec
Liqenas
Municipality

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Pustec
Coordinates: 40°47′13″N 20°54′08″E / 40.78694°N 20.90222°ECoordinates: 40°47′13″N 20°54′08″E / 40.78694°N 20.90222°E
Country  Albania
County Korçë
Government
 • Mayor Edmond Themelko (AMIE)
Area
 • Total 49.9 km2 (19.3 sq mi)
Population (2011)
 • Total 3,290
 • Density 66/km2 (170/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Car plates ER

Komuna Pustec (Macedonian: Општина Пустец, Opshtina Pustets), known officially as Komuna Liqenas from 1973 to 2013, is a municipality in the Korçë District of Albania. The population at the 2011 census was 3,290.[1] It consists of nine villages, comprising the areas along the Albanian, southwestern shore of Lake Prespa. It is part of the so-called Mala Prespa area, which is home to a large part of the local ethnic Macedonian minority of Albania.[2][3] Albanian and Macedonian are official languages of the municipality.

History

The villages within Pustec Municipality

The village of Tserye was first mentioned in documents from 14th century. The names of other villages were found in more modern documents. According to a 1900 ethnographic survey, the numbers of inhabitants at the time was 1,830.[4] The "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne" survey by Dimitar Mishev (D. Brankov) from 1905 shows that the local Christian inhabitants were divided between Bulgarian Exarchate and Patriarchate of Constantinople.[5] On 18 March 2013, the Albanian government changed the official name of the municipality, from the Albanian Liqenas to the Macedonian Pustec.[6]

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, 97% of the municipality's residents were ethnic Macedonians and 96% were Orthodox Christians.[7][8]

Villages in Pustec Municipality

The municipality contains nine villages.

Twin Municipalities

References

  1. ↑ 2011 census results
  2. ↑ “ON THE STATUS OF THE MINORITIES IN THE REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA”, Albanian Helsinki Committee with support of the Finnish Foundation ‘KIOS’ and “Finnish NGO Foundation for Human Rights”. Hosted at SEE developed by the Applied Research and Communications Fund in Sofia (www.arc.online.bg) under a two-year project sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development USAID.
  3. ↑ Minority Rights in Albania, page 3 - Albanian Helsinki Committee, September 1999
  4. ↑ Kanchov, Vasil. Macedonia — ethnography and statistics, Sofia 1900, p. 242 (in Bulgarian)
  5. ↑ D.M.Brancoff. "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne". Paris, 1905, p.170-171
  6. ↑ Pustec poveke ne e Liqenas
  7. ↑ "Ethnic Composition of Albania 2011". Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  8. ↑ "Religious Composition of Albania 2011". Retrieved 7 August 2014.

See also