Dolna Bela Crkva
Dolna Bela Crkva
Долна Бела Црква Bollocërkë e Poshtme | |
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Village | |
![]() Panoramic view of the village Dolna Bela Crkva | |
![]() ![]() Dolna Bela Crkva Location within North Macedonia | |
Coordinates: 41°02′12″N 21°01′52″E / 41.03667°N 21.03111°E | |
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Population (2002) | |
• Total | 237 |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Area code(s) | +389 |
Car plates | RE |
Dolna Bela Crkva (Macedonian: Долна Бела Црвка, meaning Lower White Church; Albanian: Bollocërkë e Poshtme) is a village in the Resen Municipality of North Macedonia, north of Lake Prespa. The village, located roughly 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from the municipal centre of Resen,[1] has 237 residents.[2]
Demographics[]
Dolna Bela Crkva has an Orthodox ethnic Macedonian majority, with a significant Muslim Albanian Sunni and Bektashi minority, of whom the latter are known locally as Kolonjarë.[3][4] Sunni Albanians in Dolna Bela Crkva 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.[4] Over time these differences have disappeared through intermarriage, closer communal and cultural relations with Bektashi and other Sunni Prespa Albanian communities in the region.[4]
Ethnic group |
census 1961 | census 1971 | census 1981 | census 1991 | census 1994 | census 2002 | ||||||
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Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
Macedonians | 222 | 65.1 | 230 | 56.9 | 259 | 64.8 | 215 | 70.7 | 167 | 67.1 | 156 | 65.8 |
Albanians | 119 | 34.9 | 173 | 42.8 | 138 | 34.5 | 82 | 27.0 | 82 | 32.9 | 81 | 34.2 |
others | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.3 | 3 | 0.8 | 7 | 2.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
Total | 341 | 404 | 400 | 304 | 249 | 237 |
Gallery[]
Sign on main road hailing entrance into Dolna Bela Crkva
Architecture of Dolna Bela Crkva
Dolna Bela Crkva village centre
Contemporary (left) and traditional (right) architecture of Dolna Bela Crkva
Streetscape in part of Dolna Bela Crkva
Orthodox church of Dolna Bela Crkva
Old village well (built 1888)
Cut firewood in a field of Dolna Bela Crkva
Fields of Dolna Bela Crkva
Apple orchard in Dolna Bela Crkva
Dolna Bela Crkva river
Fields of Dolna Bela Crkva
References[]
- ^ "Dolna Bela Crkva". Retrieved 24 August 2013.
- ^ Municipality of Resen
- ^ Censuses of population 1948 - 2002 Archived October 14, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Sugarman, Jane (1997). Engendering song: Singing and subjectivity at Prespa Albanian weddings. University of Chicago Press. pp. 9–11. ISBN 9780226779720.
- Villages in Resen Municipality