Butel is one of the ten municipalities that make up the city of Skopje

Skopje

Skopje is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Macedonia with about a third of the total population. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre...

, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia

Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...

.

A cemetery in Butel is where the grave of George Zorbas

George Zorbas

George Zorbas was the character upon whom Nikos Kazantzakis based his fictional Alexis Zorbas, the protagonist of his novel Zorba the Greek....

, the character upon whom Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis was a Greek writer and philosopher, celebrated for his novel Zorba the Greek, considered his magnum opus...

 based the fictional Alexis Zorbas of his novel Zorba the Greek

Zorba the Greek (novel)

Zorba the Greek is a novel written by the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis, first published in 1946. It is the tale of a young Greek intellectual who ventures to escape his bookish life with the aid of the boisterous and mysterious Alexis Zorba...

, is located.

Geography

Butel borders Gazi Baba Municipality

Gazi Baba municipality

Gazi Baba is one of the ten municipalities that make up the city of Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia.-Name:The name of the municipality comes from the nickname of the Ottoman poet Aṣik Çelebi...

 to the southeast, Čair Municipality

Cair municipality

Čair is one of the ten municipalities that make up the city of Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. Skopje's old town is located in Čair.- Geography :...

 to the south, Karpoš Municipality

Karpoš municipality

Karpoš is one of the ten municipalities that make up the city of Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia.-Geography:Karpoš borders Saraj Municipality and Gjorče Petrov Municipality to the west, Čučer-Sandevo Municipality to the north, Butel Municipality to the northeast, Čair...

 to the southwest, Šuto Orizari Municipality

Šuto Orizari municipality

Šuto Orizari , or simply Šutka , is one of the ten municipalities that make up the City of Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia.-Geography:...

 and Čučer-Sandevo Municipality

Cucer-Sandevo municipality

Čučer-Sandevo is a municipality in northern Republic of Macedonia. Čučer-Sandevo is also the name of the village where the municipal seat is found...

 to the northwest, and Lipkovo Municipality

Lipkovo municipality

Lipkovo is a municipality in northern Republic of Macedonia. Lipkovo is also the name of the village where the municipal seat is found. Lipkovo Municipality is part of the Northeastern Statistical Region.-Geography:...

 to the northeast.

Demographics

According to the last national census from 2002 Butel has 36,154 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the municipality include:

• Macedonians
  Macedonians (ethnic group)
  The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs: "... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness...
  
   = 22,506 (62.3%)
• Albanians
  Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia
  Albanians are the largest ethnic minority in the Republic of Macedonia. Of the 2,022,547 citizens of Macedonia, 509,083, or 25%, are Albanian according to the latest national census in 2002. The Albanian minority lives mostly in the north-western part of the country...
  
   = 9,107 (25.2%)
• Turks
  Turks in the Republic of Macedonia
  Turks in the Republic of Macedonia, also known as Macedonian Turks, are the ethnic Turks who constitute the third largest ethnic group in the Republic of Macedonia. According to the 2002 census, there were 77,959 Turks living in the country, forming a minority of some 4% of the population. The...
  
   = 1,304 (3.6%)
• Serbs = 1,033 (2.6%)
• Bosniaks = 970 (2.7%)
• others.

External links

• Official website