Gorna Bela Crkva
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|native_name = Горна Бела Црква
Bollocërkë e Sipërme
Yukarı Bela Tsırkva
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|population_total = 213
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Gorna Bela Crkva ({{langx|mk|Горна Бела Црква}}, meaning Upper White Church; {{langx|sq|Bollocërkë e Sipërme}}; {{langx|tr|Yukarı Bela Tsırkva}}) is a village in the Resen Municipality of the Republic of North Macedonia, north of Lake Prespa. The village is situated under {{convert|7|km|mi}} from the municipal centre of Resen.{{cite web|url=http://makedonija.name/municipalities/resen/gorna-bela-crkva|title=Gorna Bela Crkva|access-date=31 July 2013}}
Demographics
Gorna Bela Crkva has a mixed population of Bektashi Muslim Albanians, known locally as Kolonjarë, Turks, and Macedonians.{{cite book|last=Sugarman|first=Jane|title=Engendering song: Singing and subjectivity at Prespa Albanian weddings|year=1997|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=9780226779720|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x41vWj_ESu8C&dq=Roma&pg=PR9|pages=9–11}}[http://makstat.stat.gov.mk/pxweb2007bazi/Database/Censuses/Censuses%20of%20population%201948-2002/Censuses%20of%20population%201948-2002.asp Censuses of population 1948 - 2002] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014071758/http://makstat.stat.gov.mk/pxweb2007bazi/Database/Censuses/Censuses%20of%20population%201948-2002/Censuses%20of%20population%201948-2002.asp |date=2013-10-14 }}
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! rowspan="2" | Ethnic ! colspan="2" | census 1961 ! colspan="2" | census 1971 ! colspan="2" | census 1981 ! colspan="2" | census 1991 ! colspan="2" | census 1994 ! colspan="2" | census 2002 ! colspan="2" | census 2021 |
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! Number ! % ! Number ! % ! Number ! % ! Number ! % ! Number ! % ! Number ! % ! Number ! % |
| Macedonians
| align="right" | 2 | align="right" | 0.5 | align="right" | 3 | align="right" | 0.6 | align="right" | 1 | align="right" | 0.2 | align="right" | 1 | align="right" | 0.2 | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | 0.0 | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | 0.0 | align="right" | 9 | align="right" | 4.2 |
| Albanians
| align="right" | 141 | align="right" | 32.5 | align="right" | 207 | align="right" | 40.9 | align="right" | 332 | align="right" | 56.2 | align="right" | 135 | align="right" | 28.3 | align="right" | 117 | align="right" | 54.4 | align="right" | 114 | align="right" | 61.0 | align="right" | 109 | align="right" | 51.2 |
| Turks
| align="right" | 290 | align="right" | 66.8 | align="right" | 291 | align="right" | 57.5 | align="right" | 220 | align="right" | 37.2 | align="right" | 106 | align="right" | 22.2 | align="right" | 98 | align="right" | 45.6 | align="right" | 73 | align="right" | 39.0 | align="right" | 88 | align="right" | 41.3 |
| others
| align="right" | 1 | align="right" | 0.2 | align="right" | 5 | align="right" | 1.0 | align="right" | 38 | align="right" | 6.4 | align="right" | 235 | align="right" | 49.3 | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | 0.0 | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | 0.0 | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | 0.0 |
| Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources
| colspan="12" | | align="right" | 7 | align="right" | 3.3 |
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! align="left" | Total ! colspan="2" | 434 ! colspan="2" | 506 ! colspan="2" | 591 ! colspan="2" | 477 ! colspan="2" | 215 ! colspan="2" | 187 ! colspan="2" | 213 |
References
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Category:Villages in Resen Municipality
Category:Albanian communities in North Macedonia
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