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)
• Total	222
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code	+389
Car plates	RE

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 Torbeš 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]

As of the 2021 census, Sopotsko had 152 residents.^[3]

Ethnic group	census 1961		census 1971		census 1981		census 1991		census 1994		census 2002		census 2021
	Number	%	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	111	73.0
Albanians	56	8.7	86	16.1	125	21.9	45	13.5	30	12.2	36	16.2	31	20.4
Turks	44	6.8	0	0.0	5	0.9	0	0.0	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	0	0.0
others	0	0.0	2	0.4	19	3.3	3	0.9	0	0.0	2	0.9	0	0.0
Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources													10	6.6
Total	643		533		570		334		260		222		152

People from Sopotsko

• Naum Pecalev - Bekrijata (1874 - ?), rebel^[4]
• Reis Shaqiri (1922 - 2006), partisan^[5]
• Resul Shaqiri (1931 -), communist politician

References

1. "Sopotsko Resen, Macedonia - Sopotsko Resen | Sopotsko map".
2. Sugarman, Jane (1997). Engendering song: Singing and subjectivity at Prespa Albanian weddings. University of Chicago Press. pp. 9–11. ISBN 9780226779720.
3. Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
4. Николов, Борис. ВМОРО - псевдоними и шифри 1893-1934, Звезди, 1999, стр.15
5. Македонска енциклопедија, МАНУ, Skopje, 2009, стр.1644

41°05′N 21°04′E