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 Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 40°53′36.39″N 21°6′31.69″E
Country	North Macedonia
Region	Pelagonia
Municipality	Resen
Population  (2002)
• Total	262
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code(s)	+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
	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
Albanians	391	61.4	458	62.0	439	70.1	296	55.5	175	59.3	158	60.3
Turks	4	0.6	5	0.7	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
others	0	0.0	2	0.3	7	1.1	61	11.5	10	3.4	8	3.1
Total	637		739		626		533		295		262

Gallery

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  Entrance (right) into Nakolec from main road
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  Architecture of Nakolec
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  Architecture of Nakolec
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  Nakolec village square
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  Architecture of Nakolec
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  Mosque of Nakolec
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  River of Nakolec and Sufi shrine (centre) in the background
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  Sufi Muslim shrine in Nakolec
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  Orthodox church entrance and bell tower of Nakolec
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  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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
3. Włodzimierz, Pianka (1970). Toponomastikata na Ohridsko-Prespanskiot bazen. Institut za makedonski jazik "Krste Misirkov". p. 128.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) "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.