Sopotsko
| Sopotsko Сопотско Sopockë | |
|---|---|
| Village | |
|
Road sign to Sopotsko | |
  Sopotsko Location within Macedonia | |
| Coordinates: 41°05′06″N 21°03′50″E / 41.08500°N 21.06389°E | |
| Country |
 Macedonia |
| Municipality | Resen Municipality |
| Population (2002) | |
| • Total | 222 |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| Area code(s) | +389 |
| Car plates | RE |
Sopotsko (Macedonian: Сопотско, Albanian: Sopockë) is a village in the Resen Municipality of the Republic of Macedonia. Sopotsko is roughly 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the municipal centre of Resen.[1]
Demographics
Sopotsko has 222 residents as of the most recent national census of 2002.[2] A village with a declining population, Sopotsko also has a sizable ethnic Albanian minority.[3]
| Ethnic group |
census 1961 | census 1971 | census 1981 | census 1991 | census 1994 | census 2002 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Albanians | 56 | 8.7 | 86 | 16.1 | 125 | 21.9 | 45 | 13.5 | 30 | 12.2 | 36 | 16.2 |
| Turks | 44 | 6.8 | 0 | 0.0 | 5 | 0.9 | 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 |
| others | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.4 | 19 | 3.3 | 3 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.9 |
| Total | 643 | 533 | 570 | 334 | 260 | 222 | ||||||
People from Sopotsko
- Naum Pecalev - Bekrijata (1874 - ?), rebel[4]
- Reis Šakiri (1922 - 2006), partizan[5]
- Resul Šakiri (1931 -), communist politician
References
- ↑ http://makedonija.name/municipalities/resen/sopotsko
- ↑ Municipality of Resen
- ↑ Censuses of population 1948 - 2002
- ↑ Николов, Борис. ВМОРО - псевдоними и шифри 1893-1934, Звезди, 1999, стр.15
- ↑ Македонска енциклопедија, МАНУ, Skopje, 2009, стр.1644
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Coordinates: 41°05′N 21°04′E / 41.083°N 21.067°E
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