Dolna Bela Crkva
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]
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 | |
Country | North Macedonia |
Region | Pelagonia |
Municipality | Resen |
Population (2002) | |
• Total | 237 |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Area code(s) | +389 |
Car plates | RE |
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
- Sugarman, Jane (1997). Engendering song: Singing and subjectivity at Prespa Albanian weddings. University of Chicago Press. pp. 9–11. ISBN 9780226779720.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)