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 / 41.08500; 21.06389
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

References

  1. ↑ http://makedonija.name/municipalities/resen/sopotsko
  2. ↑ Municipality of Resen
  3. ↑ Censuses of population 1948 - 2002
  4. ↑ Николов, Борис. ВМОРО - псевдоними и шифри 1893-1934, Звезди, 1999, стр.15
  5. ↑ Македонска енциклопедија, МАНУ, Skopje, 2009, стр.1644

Coordinates: 41°05′N 21°04′E / 41.083°N 21.067°E / 41.083; 21.067

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