Lavci (Resen Municipality)
Lavci (Macedonian: Лавци, Turkish: Lahça) is a village in the Resen Municipality of the Republic of North Macedonia, northwest of Lake Prespa. It has 134 residents as of the 2002 census.
Demographics
The village of Lavci is inhabited by Muslim Turks and Orthodox Macedonians. Lavci is one of two settlements in Resen Municipality with a Turkish majority population, the other being Kozjak.
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census 1961 | census 1971 | census 1981 | census 1991 | census 1994 | census 2002 | ||||||
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| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
| Macedonians | 121 | 35.7 | 103 | 33.0 | 97 | 27.1 | 28 | 13.9 | 28 | 19.3 | 18 | 13.4 |
| Turks | 217 | 64.0 | 209 | 67.0 | 241 | 67.3 | 164 | 81.6 | 113 | 77.9 | 113 | 84.3 |
| others | 1 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 20 | 5.6 | 9 | 4.5 | 4 | 2.8 | 3 | 2.2 |
| Total | 339 | 312 | 358 | 201 | 145 | 134 | ||||||
References
- ^ Municipality of Resen
- ^ Sugarman, Jane (1997). Engendering song: Singing and subjectivity at Prespa Albanian weddings. University of Chicago Press. pp. 9–11. ISBN 9780226779720.
- ^ Censuses of population 1948 - 2002 Archived 2013-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
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