Nakolec (; ) is a village on

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in Resen Municipality in the

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. It is located roughly south of the municipal centre of Resen.

Demographics

The village of Nakolec has a

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Albanian majority and an Orthodox Macedonian minority. A small number of Albanian speaking Muslim Romani used to live in Nakolec which during the latter decades of the 20th century have migrated to

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and Resen. In the late Ottoman period, a few Turks and some

Bektashi Bektashism (, ) is a tariqa, Sufi order of Islam that evolved in 13th-century western Anatolia and became widespread in the Ottoman Empire. It is named after the wali, ''walī'' "saint" Haji Bektash Veli, with adherents called Bektashis. The ...

Albanians, known locally as ''Kolonjarë'', used to also reside in the village of Nakolec (). "Горна Преспа... Во 1900 год. Турци имало само во Наколец (30 лица)." Nakolec has 262 residents as of the most recent national census in 2002.Municipality of Resen
/ref> The village has long had a multiethnic population.Censuses of population 1948 - 2002

Gallery

File:Nakolec village 5.jpg, Entrance (right) into Nakolec from main road File:Nakolec village 6.jpg, Architecture of Nakolec File:Nakolec village 4.jpg, Architecture of Nakolec File:Nakolec village 1.jpg, Nakolec village square File:Nakolec village 3.jpg, Architecture of Nakolec File:Xhamia e Nakolecit 1.jpg, Mosque of Nakolec File:Lumi i Nakolecit dhe vakëfi mysliman të fshatit në sfond 1.jpg, River of Nakolec and Sufi shrine (centre) in the background File:Vakëfi mysliman të Nakolecit.jpg, Sufi Muslim shrine in Nakolec File:Викиекспедиција Преспа 165.jpg, Orthodox church entrance and bell tower of Nakolec File:Orthodox church of Nakolec.3.jpg, Orthodox church and cemetery of Nakolec

People from Nakolec

* Risto Vasilevski (1943 -), poet, critic, and translator

References

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