Sopotsko

Sopotsko (Macedonian: Сопотско, Albanian: Sopockë), is a village in the Resen Municipality of the Republic of North Macedonia. Sopotsko is roughly 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the municipal centre of Resen.[1]

Sopotsko

Сопотско
Sopockë
Village
Sopotsko
Sopotsko
Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 41°05′06″N 21°03′50″E
Country North Macedonia
Region Pelagonia
Municipality Resen
Population
 (2002)
 • Total222
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code(s)+389
Car platesRE

Demographics

The village of Sopotsko is inhabited by an Orthodox Macedonian majority and a Sunni Muslim Albanian minority.[2] Sunni Albanians in Sopotsko traditionally highlighted their religious identity over a linguistic one having closer economic and social relations with Turks and Macedonian Muslims in the region and being distant from Orthodox Macedonians.[2] Over time these differences have disappeared through intermarriage, closer communal and cultural relations with Bektashi and other Sunni Prespa Albanian communities in the region.[2]

Sopotsko has 222 residents as of the most recent national census of 2002.[3] A village with a declining population, Sopotsko also has a sizable ethnic Albanian minority.[4]

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
  • Cultural centre ("Dom") of Sopotsko
  • Architecture of Sopotsko
  • Architecture of Sopotsko
  • View from Mt Rogojca of Vigla mountain range (far left)
  • Mosque of Sopotsko
  • Muslim cemetery of Sopotsko
  • Orthodox church of Sopotsko
  • Orthodox cemetery of Sopotsko
  • Ottoman era millstones belonging to the former mill of Shemo Aga
  • Village water fountain from WW1 built by Bulgarian soldiers
  • Yugoslav communist era graffiti in Sopotsko

People from Sopotsko
  • Naum Pecalev - Bekrijata (1874 - ?), rebel[5]
  • Reis Shaqiri (1922 - 2006), partisan[6]
  • Resul Shaqiri (1931 -), communist politician

References
  1. http://makedonija.name/municipalities/resen/sopotsko
  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. Municipality of Resen
  4. Censuses of population 1948 - 2002 Archived 2013-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Николов, Борис. ВМОРО - псевдоними и шифри 1893-1934, Звезди, 1999, стр.15
  6. Македонска енциклопедија, МАНУ, Skopje, 2009, стр.1644

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