Sopotsko

Sopotsko (Сопотско, Sopockë), is a village in the Resen Municipality of the Republic of North Macedonia. Sopotsko is roughly 5 km from the municipal centre of Resen.

Demographics
The village of Sopotsko is inhabited by an Orthodox Macedonian majority and a Sunni Muslim Albanian minority. Sunni Albanians in Sopotsko traditionally highlighted their religious identity over a linguistic one having closer economic and social relations with Turks and Torbeš in the region and being distant from Orthodox Macedonians. Over time these differences have disappeared through intermarriage, closer communal and cultural relations with Bektashi and other Sunni Prespa Albanian communities in the region.

As of the 2021 census, Sopotsko had 152 residents.

People from Sopotsko

 * Naum Pecalev - Bekrijata (1874 - ?), rebel
 * Reis Shaqiri (1922 - 2006), partisan
 * Resul Shaqiri (1931 -), communist politician