Stenje
Stenje
Стење | |
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Village | |
 Stenje as seen fromGaličica | |
  Stenje Location within North Macedonia | |
| Coordinates:40°56′1″N20°55′0″E/ 40.93361°N 20.91667°E | |
| Country |  North Macedonia |
| Region |  Pelagonia |
| Municipality |  Resen |
| Population (2002) | |
| • Total | 438 |
| Time zone | UTC+1(CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2(CEST) |
| Area code | +389 |
| Car plates | RE |
Stenje(Macedonian:Стење) is a village in theResen MunicipalityofNorth Macedonia.It is located on the shore ofLake Prespa,near the Macedonian-Albanian border andGaličica National Park.[1]Today, the village has 438 inhabitants.[2]
Demographics
[edit]As of the most recent national census in 2002, Stenje has an ethnically homogeneous population ofMacedonians.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 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 declaredMacedonianto be their mother tongue.[4]
Religion
[edit]All of Stenje's residents identified asMacedonian Orthodoxin 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
[edit]- Stojan Georgiev(? - 1922), revolutionary and member of theInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization[6]
References
[edit]- ^"Stenje".Retrieved31 July2013.
- ^Municipality of Resen
- ^Censuses of population 1948 - 2002ArchivedOctober 14, 2013, at theWayback Machine
- ^ab"Macedonian census, language and religion"(PDF).Retrieved2013-09-03.
- ^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.ISBN978-608-65143-2-7.
- ^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
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