Slivnica | |
Native Name: | Сливница |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | North Macedonia |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within North Macedonia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Pelagonia |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Population As Of: | 2002 |
Population Total: | 188 |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Coordinates: | 40.9589°N 21.0814°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Area Code: | +389 |
Blank Name: | Car plates |
Blank Info: | RE |
Slivnica (mk|Сливница) is a village on the eastern shore of Lake Prespa in the Resen Municipality of the Republic of North Macedonia. It is located under 16km (10miles) south of the municipal centre of Resen.[1]
Slivnica is inhabited by Orthodox Macedonians.[2] During the late Ottoman period, Torbeš also used to reside in Slivnica.[3] The statistics of Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov from 1900 also verifies this. In his statistics Slivnica had 126 inhabitants with 120 being Bulgarian Exarchists and 6 being Bulgarian Muslims.[4]
Slivnica has a population of 188 people.[5] It is one of only four villages in Resen Municipality that saw a population increase from the 1994 census to the most recent one in 2002.[6]
Ethnic group | census 1961 | census 1971 | census 1981 | census 1991 | census 1994 | census 2002 | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
Macedonians | 310 | 100.0 | 265 | 99.6 | 309 | 95.7 | 207 | 99.5 | 166 | 100.0 | 188 | 100.0 |
others | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.4 | 14 | 4.3 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
Total | 310 | 266 | 323 | 208 | 166 | 188 | ||||||