Pustec
Liqenas | |
|---|---|
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&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Albania_(location_map).svg)  Pustec | |
| Coordinates: 40°47′13″N 20°54′08″E / 40.78694°N 20.90222°E | |
| Country |  Albania |
| County | Korçë |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Pali Kolefski (PS) |
| Area | |
| • Municipality | 243.60 km2 (94.05 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Municipality | 3,290 |
| • Municipality density | 14/km2 (35/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal Code | 7020 |
| Area Code | (0)867 |
| Website | www |
Pustec Municipality (Albanian: Bashkia Pustec; Macedonian: Општина Пустец, Opshtina Pustets), previously known as Liqenas Commune (Albanian: Komuna Liqenas) from 1973 to 2013, is a municipality in the Korçë County of Albania.[1] The population at the 2011 census was 3,290,[2] in a total area of 243.60 km2.[3] The municipality's flag features the Vergina Sun.[4]
It consists of nine villages, comprising the areas along the Albanian, the southwestern shore of Lake Prespa. It is part of the so-called Mala Prespa area, which is home to a large part of the local ethnic Macedonian minority of Albania.[5][6] Albanian and Macedonian are official languages of the municipality.
- ^ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). pp. 6372–6373. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ "Population and housing census - Korçë 2011" (PDF). INSTAT. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ "Correspondence table LAU – NUTS 2016, EU-28 and EFTA / available Candidate Countries" (XLS). Eurostat. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ Gori, Maja; Ivanova, Maria, eds. (2017). Balkan Dialogues: Negotiating Identity between Prehistory and the Present. Taylor & Francis. p. 258. ISBN 9781317377474.
- ^ “ON THE STATUS OF THE MINORITIES IN THE REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA”, Albanian Helsinki Committee with support of the Finnish Foundation ‘KIOS’ and “Finnish NGO Foundation for Human Rights”. Hosted at SEE developed by the Applied Research and Communications Fund in Sofia (www.arc.online.bg) under a two-year project sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development USAID.
- ^ Minority Rights in Albania Archived 2007-11-17 at the Wayback Machine, page 3 - Albanian Helsinki Committee, September 1999