Nakolec
Village in Pelagonia, North Macedonia
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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 Location within North Macedonia | |
| Coordinates: 40°53′36.39″N 21°6′31.69″E | |
| Country |  North Macedonia |
| Region |  Pelagonia |
| Municipality |  Resen |
| Population (2021) | |
• Total | 212 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Area code | +389 |
| Car plates | RE |
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 | |||||||
Gallery
Entrance (right) into Nakolec from main road
Architecture of Nakolec
Architecture of Nakolec
Nakolec village square
Architecture of Nakolec
Mosque of Nakolec
River of Nakolec and Sufi shrine (centre) in the background
Sufi Muslim shrine in Nakolec
Orthodox church entrance and bell tower of Nakolec
Orthodox church and cemetery of Nakolec
People from Nakolec
- Risto Vasilevski (1943 -), poet, critic, and translator[6]