Butel Municipality
Општина Бутел Komuna e Butelit | |
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City municipality (Rural) | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
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| Country |  North Macedonia |
| Region |  Skopje |
| 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.
- ^ a b Ragaru 2008, pp. 542–543. "Skopje encompasses ten municipalities (Aerodrom, Butel, Čair, Centar, Gazi Baba, Gjorče Petrov, Karpoš, Kisela Voda, Saraj, Šuto Orizari), which all have a mayor, a municipal council and the same prerogatives as other municipalities in the country."