Ljubojno (

Macedonian Cyrillic The orthography of the Macedonian language includes an alphabet consisting of 31 letters ( mk, Македонска азбука, Makedonska azbuka), which is an adaptation of the Cyrillic script, as well as language-specific conventions of spelli ...

: Љубојно) is a village located in the region of

Prespa Prespa ( mk, Преспа, sq, Prespa, el, Πρέσπα) is a region shared between North Macedonia, Albania and Greece. It shares the same name with the two Prespa lakes which are situated in the middle of the region. The largest town is Rese ...

North Macedonia North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Yugoslavia. It ...

. Ljubojno is situated some 2 km from

Prespa lake The Lake Prespa is located on the tripoint of North Macedonia, Albania, and Greece. It is a system of two lakes separated by an isthmus: the Great Prespa Lake, divided between the three countries, and the Little Prespa Lake, mostly within Greece ...

and about 5 km north of the

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

border, and its elevation is about 920 m above sea level. The population of Ljubojno is 186.

Demographics

Ljubojno is inhabited by Orthodox Macedonians. In the late Ottoman period, some

Bektashi The Bektashi Order; sq, Tarikati Bektashi; tr, Bektaşi or Bektashism is an Islamic Sufi mystic movement originating in the 13th-century. It is named after the Anatolian saint Haji Bektash Wali (d. 1271). The community is currently led by ...

Albanians, known locally as ''Kolonjarë'', used to also reside in the village of Ljubojno ( sq, Lubonjë). As of the 2021 census, Ljubojno had 141 residents with the following ethnic composition: *Macedonians 131 *Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 7 *Others 3 According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 186 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:Macedonian Census (2002)
''Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion''
The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 164. * Macedonians 175 * Albanians 10 *

Vlachs "Vlach" ( or ), also "Wallachian" (and many other variants), is a historical term and exonym used from the Middle Ages until the Modern Era to designate mainly Romanians but also Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians, Istro-Romanians and other E ...

Religious objects

There are 8 Orthodox churches in the village. Among them are Sv. Prechista, St. Atanasij, St. Marena, St. Elijah, St. Dimitrija, St. Bogorodica and monastery of St. Petre and Paul. Church of St. John was built in 1861, was destroyed by fire in 1903 and was renovated in 1921.

People from Ljubojno

Lambe Alabakoski Lambe Alabakovski ( mk, Ламбе Алабаковски, ; born 15 November 1987, in Ljubojno, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Macedonian singer. Biography Alabakovski attended the Euro-College in Kumanovo. He won the M2 Production's Play: Search For A ...

(1987 -), singer * Josif Grezlovski - Gandeto (1945-), writer * Naum Manilov - Prespanski (1934 - 1961), poet * Vlado Tudžarovski, politician''ВМРО-вците во Битола и нивните акции''

References

External links

Article about Ljubojno on MakLink
{{coord, 40, 54, N, 21, 08, E, display=title, region:MK_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki Villages in Resen Municipality