Nakolec

Village in Pelagonia, North Macedonia

Nakolec Наколец
Village
Nakolec with Lake Prespa in the background
40°53′36.39″N 21°6′31.69″E / 40.8934417°N 21.1088028°E / 40.8934417; 21.1088028
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

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]

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
Ethnic group	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]

References

^ "Nakolec". Retrieved 31 July 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c Sugarman, Jane (1997). Engendering song: Singing and subjectivity at Prespa Albanian weddings. University of Chicago Press. pp. 9–11. ISBN 9780226779720.
^ Włodzimierz, Pianka (1970). Toponomastikata na Ohridsko-Prespanskiot bazen. Institut za makedonski jazik "Krste Misirkov". p. 128. "Горна Преспа... Во 1900 год. Турци имало само во Наколец (30 лица)."
^ Municipality of Resen
^ Censuses of population 1948 - 2002 Archived 2013-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Risto Vasilevski 1991". Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage Struga. Retrieved 22 March 2014.