Komuna Liqenas is a municipality

Municipality

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 in the Korçë District

Korçë District

The District of Korçë , is one of the thirty-six districts of Albania. According estimates, as of January 1, 2010, 138,898 people lived in the Korce District...

 of Albania

Albania

Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...

. It has a population of c.4300 and consists of nine villages, comprising the areas along the Albanian, south-western shore of the Greater Prespa

Lake Prespa

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 lake. It is part of the so-called Mala Prespa area, which is home to a large part of the local ethnic Macedonian

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...

 minority of Albania.

Villages in the Pustec District

• Lajthizë (Macedonian: Leska)
• Liqenas
  Liqenas
  Komuna Liqenas is a municipality in the Korçë District of Albania. It has a population of c.4300 and consists of nine villages, comprising the areas along the Albanian, south-western shore of the Greater Prespa lake...
  
   (Pustec)
• Zaroshkë (Zrnovsko)
• Cerja
  Cerja
  -Demographics:...
  
   (Cerje)
• Diellas (Shulin)
• Gollomboç
  Gollomboç
  Gollomboç is a village in the Mala Prespa, Albania, Municipality Pustec , Korçë District.- History :The "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne" survey by Dimitar Mishev Gollomboç is a village in the Mala Prespa, Albania, Municipality Pustec (Liqenas), Korçë District.- History :The "La...
  
   (Globochani)
• Goricë e Vogël
  Goricë e Vogël
  Goricë e Vogël is a village in the Mala Prespa, Albania, District Pustec, Korçë District....
  
   (Dolna Gorica)
• Kallamas
  Kallamas
  Kallamas is a village in the Korçë District, Albania. According to Yugoslav sources from 1981, the village was populated exclusively by Macedonians....
  
   (Tuminec)
• Goricë e Madhe
  Goricë e Madhë
  Goricë e Madhe is a village in the Mala Prespa, Albania, District Pustec, Korçë District.-History:Goricë is the location of a fortified town called Pellion of the Ancient Greek tribe of the Dexaroi that was later a Macedonian fortress.-Demographics:...
  
   (Gorna Gorica)

History

The village of Tserye

Cerja

-Demographics:...

 was first mentioned in documents from 14th century. The names of other villages were found in more modern documents. According to a 1900 ethnographic survey, the numbers of inhabitants at that time were as follows:

• Lajthica - 70
• Pustec (now Liqenas) - 410
• Zrnovsko - 250
• Cerje (now Cerja) - 120
• Šulin (now Belas) - 270
• Globočani (now Gollomboç) - 248
• Dolna Gorica (now Goricë e Vogël) - 42
• Gorna Gorica (now Gorica e Madhe) - 285
• Tuminec (now Kallamas) - 360.

The "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne" survey by Dimitar Mishev (D. Brankov) from 1905 shows that the local Christian inhabitants were divided between Bulgarian Exarchate

Bulgarian Exarchate

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 and Patriarchate of Constantinople.

See also

• Mala Prespa and Golo Brdo
  Mala Prespa and Golo Brdo
  Prespa e Vogël and Golloborda , refers to a geographical area situated in southeastern Albania. This region consists of two areas: Prespa e Vogël and Golloborda...
  
  
• Municipalities of Albania
  Municipalities of Albania
  This is a list of municipalities of Albania, sorted by county and by district. Municipalities are the third-level administrative divisions of Albania, under districts and counties. There are two types of municipalities in Albania: municipalities with an urban character are called bashki, and...
  
  
• Macedonians in Albania
• Macedonia (region)
  Macedonia (region)
  Macedonia is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan peninsula in southeastern Europe. Its boundaries have changed considerably over time, but nowadays the region is considered to include parts of five Balkan countries: Greece, the Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania, Serbia, as...