Stenje ( mk, Стење) is a village in the
Resen Municipality
Resen ( mk, Ресен ) is a municipality in southwestern Republic of North Macedonia. '' Resen'' is also the name of the town where the municipal seat is found. Resen Municipality is located in the Pelagonia Statistical Region.
Geography
The ...
of
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 ...
. It is located on the 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 Gree ...
, near the Macedonian-Albanian border and
Galičica National Park.
Today, the village has 438 inhabitants.
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.
[Censuses of population 1948 - 2002](_blank)
All but one of the villagers declared
Macedonian to be their mother tongue.
Religion
All of Stenje's residents identified as
Macedonian Orthodox in the previous census.
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.
People from Stenje
*
Stojan Georgiev (? - 1922), revolutionary and member of the
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization
The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO; bg, Вътрешна Македонска Революционна Организация (ВМРО), translit=Vatrešna Makedonska Revoljucionna Organizacija (VMRO); mk, Внатр ...
[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]
References
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Villages in Resen Municipality