Gorna Bela Crkva

Gorna Bela Crkva
Горна Бела Црква
Village
Gorna Bela Crkva

Location within Macedonia

Coordinates: 41°03′00″N 21°01′40″E / 41.05000°N 21.02778°E / 41.05000; 21.02778
Country  Macedonia
Municipality Resen Municipality
Population (2002)
  Total 187
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
  Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Area code(s) +389
Car plates RE

Gorna Bela Crkva (Macedonian: Горна Бела Црква, meaning Upper White Church; Albanian: Bollacërka e Sipërme; Turkish: Gorna Bela Tsrkva) is a village in the Resen Municipality of the Republic of Macedonia, north of Lake Prespa. The village is situated under 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from the municipal centre of Resen.[1]

Demographics

Gorna Bela Crkva has a mixed population of Albanians and Turks, and is one of only two villages in Resen Municipality with no ethnic Macedonian residents (the other being Kozjak).[2]

Ethnic
group
census 1961 census 1971 census 1981 census 1991 census 1994 census 2002
Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number %
Macedonians 2 0.5 3 0.6 1 0.2 1 0.2 0 0.0 0 0.0
Albanians 141 32.5 207 40.9 332 56.2 135 28.3 117 54.4 114 61.0
Turks 290 66.8 291 57.5 220 37.2 106 22.2 98 45.6 73 39.0
others 1 0.2 5 1.0 38 6.4 235 49.3 0 0.0 0 0.0
Total 434 506 591 477 215 187

References

Coordinates: 41°03′N 21°01′E / 41.050°N 21.017°E / 41.050; 21.017



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