Stenje
Stenje
Стење | |
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Village | |
![]() Stenje as seen from Galičica | |
![]() ![]() Stenje Location within North Macedonia | |
Coordinates: 40°56′1″N 20°55′0″E / 40.93361°N 20.91667°E | |
Country | ![]() |
Region | ![]() |
Municipality | ![]() |
Population (2002) | |
• Total | 438 |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Area code(s) | +389 |
Car plates | RE |
Stenje (Macedonian: Стење) is a village in the Resen Municipality of North Macedonia. It is located on the shore of Lake Prespa, near the Macedonian-Albanian border and Galičica National Park.[1] Today, the village has 438 inhabitants.[2]
Demographics[]
As of the most recent national census in 2002, Stenje has an ethnically homogeneous population of Macedonians. The village is also one of only four in the municipality to have gained population from the 1994 census to the latest one.[3]
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 | 466 | 97.7 | 440 | 96.9 | 425 | 97.7 | 333 | 99.1 | 320 | 98.8 | 438 | 100.0 |
Serbs | 9 | 1.9 | 7 | 1.5 | 4 | 0.9 | 1 | 0.3 | 2 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.0 |
others | 2 | 0.4 | 7 | 1.5 | 6 | 1.4 | 2 | 0.6 | 2 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.0 |
Total | 477 | 454 | 435 | 336 | 324 | 438 |
All but one of the villagers declared Macedonian to be their mother tongue.[4]
Religion[]
All of Stenje's residents identified as Macedonian Orthodox in the previous census.[4] The village has four churches including the Church of St Atanas, the Church of Ss Cyril and Methodius, the Church of St Nicholas, and the Church of the Presentation of the Holy Mother of God.[5]
People from Stenje[]
- (? - 1922), revolutionary and member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization[6]
References[]
- ^ "Stenje". Retrieved 31 July 2013.
- ^ Municipality of Resen
- ^ Censuses of population 1948 - 2002 Archived October 14, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Macedonian census, language and religion" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-09-03.
- ^ Jelena Pavlovska; Nataša Nikjiforovikj; Ognen Kocevski (2011). Valentina Božinovska (ed.). Карта на верски објекти во Македонија (in Macedonian). Menora - Skopje: Комисија за односи во верските заедници и религиозните групи. ISBN 978-608-65143-2-7.
- ^ Burilkova, Iva. Кратка автобиография и спомени на Крум Константинов Петишев за революционната му дейност в поробена Македония, Известия на държавните архиви, бр. 85-86, Sofia 2003, стр. 253
- Villages in Resen Municipality