Butel Municipality
Општина Бутел Komuna e Butelit | |
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City municipality (Rural) | |
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Municipal seat | Skopje |
Government | |
• Mayor | Darko Kostovski (VMRO-DPMNE) |
Population | |
• Total | 37,968 |
Official Language(s) | |
• primary | Macedonian, Albanian |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
Website | http://www.opstinabutel.gov.mk |
Butel Municipality (Macedonian: ; Albanian: Butel) is one of the ten municipalities that make up the City of Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia.[1] The municipality administration consists of a council and mayor.[1]
A cemetery in Butel is where the grave of George Zorbas, the character upon whom Nikos Kazantzakis based the fictional Alexis Zorbas of his novel Zorba the Greek, is located.