Pustec Municipality ( sq, Bashkia Pustec; mk, Општина Пустец, ''Opshtina Pustets''), previously known as Liqenas Commune ( sq, Komuna Liqenas) from 1973 to 2013, is a municipality in the

Korçë County Korçë County ( sq, Qarku Korçë, italic=unset), officially the County of Korçë ( sq, Qarku i Korçës, italic=unset), is a county in the Southern Region of the Republic of Albania. It is the largest by area and the seventh most populous of ...

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. The population at the 2011 census was 3,290, in a total area of 243.60 km². The municipality's flag features the

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. It consists of nine villages, comprising the areas along the Albanian, the southwestern shore of

Lake Prespa 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 ...

. It is part of the so-called

Mala Prespa Mala Prespa ( Macedonian and bg, Мала Преспа, ) is a term used to denote a geographical area in eastern Albania, part of the wider region of Prespa. It is located on the western shore of Lake Prespa along the southeastern edge of Alba ...

area, which is home to a large part of the local ethnic Macedonian minority of Albania.“ON THE STATUS OF THE MINORITIES IN THE REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA”
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(www.arc.online.bg) under a two-year project sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development

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. Albanian and Macedonian are official languages of the municipality.

History

The village of Cerje was first mentioned in documents from the 14th century. The names of other villages were found in more modern documents. According to a 1900 ethnographic survey, the number of inhabitants at the time was 1,830. The "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne" survey by Dimitar Mishev (D. Brankov) from 1905 shows that the local Christian inhabitants were divided between

Bulgarian Exarchate The Bulgarian Exarchate ( bg, Българска екзархия, Balgarska ekzarhiya; tr, Bulgar Eksarhlığı) was the official name of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church before its autocephaly was recognized by the Ecumenical See in 1945 and th ...

and

Patriarchate of Constantinople The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople ( el, Οἰκουμενικὸν Πατριαρχεῖον Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, translit=Oikoumenikón Patriarkhíon Konstantinoupóleos, ; la, Patriarchatus Oecumenicus Constanti ...

. On 18 March 2013, the Albanian government changed the official name of the municipality, from the Albanian Liqenas to the Macedonian Pustec. Pustec Multilingual Road Signs

Villages in Pustec Municipality

The municipality contains nine villages. * Cerje *

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Pustec Pustec ( sq, Pustec; mk, Пустец) formerly known as Liqenas (1973–2013), is a village in Pustec Municipality, Korçë County, eastern Albania. Situated on the southwestern shore of Lake Prespa, it is home to much of the Macedonian minorit ...

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Tuminec Tuminec ( sq, Tuminec, formally ''Bezmisht'' and ''Kallamas''; Macedonian Туминец is a village just north of the Albanian portion of Lake Prespa in the Pustec Municipality of the Korçë County. The villages of Konjsko and Stenje are oppos ...

* Zrnovsko

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, 97% of the municipality's residents were

ethnic Macedonians Macedonians ( mk, Македонци, Makedonci) are a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group native to the region of Macedonia in Southeast Europe. They speak Macedonian, a South Slavic language. The large majority of Macedonians identif ...

and 96% were Orthodox Christians.

Education

Each of the nine villages in the municipality has an elementary school. Gorna Gorice has an 8-year school, while Pustec has both an 8-year school and a secondary school.

Twinned municipalities

Novaci Municipality Novaci ( mk, ) is a municipality in the southern part of North Macedonia. '' Novaci'' is also the name of the village where the municipal seat is found. Novaci Municipality is a part of the Pelagonia Statistical Region. Located in the municipali ...

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 Socialist Feder ...

History

Villages in Pustec Municipality

Demographics

Education

Twinned municipalities

Notes

References

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