Butel Municipality
Општина Бутел
Komuna e Butelit
City municipality (Rural)
Flag of Butel Municipality
Flag
Official logo of Butel Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Butel Municipality
Country North Macedonia
Region Skopje
Municipal seatSkopje
Government
 • MayorDarko Kostovski (VMRO-DPMNE)
Population
 • Total37,968
Official Language(s)
 • primaryMacedonian, Albanian
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
Websitehttp://www.opstinabutel.gov.mk

Butel Municipality (Macedonian: Бутелⓘ; Albanian: Butel) is one of the ten municipalities that make up the City of Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia.[1] The municipality administration consists of a council and mayor.[1]

A cemetery in Butel is where the grave of George Zorbas, the character upon whom Nikos Kazantzakis based the fictional Alexis Zorbas of his novel Zorba the Greek, is located.

Geography

Butel is located along the north-central and north-eastern areas of Skopje not far from the modern city center and most of the municipality extends eastward in a panhandle shape toward the Skopska Crna Gora mountain range. It borders Gazi Baba Municipality to the southeast, Čair Municipality to the south, Karpoš Municipality to the southwest, Šuto Orizari Municipality and Čučer-Sandevo Municipality to the northwest, and Lipkovo Municipality to the northeast.

History

Prior to 2004 Butel municipality was within the boundaries of a larger Čair municipality that had a majority Macedonian population (60.60%), followed by Albanians (20.89%), Turks (4.12%), Bosniaks (3.40%), Romani (1.46%) and Serbs (2.11%).[2] The new territorial-administrative reform of 2004 divided the municipal unit into a smaller Čair municipality with an Albanian majority and a separate Butel municipality with a Macedonian majority.[2] The new boundaries of Čair municipality resulted in the loss of its industrial zone to Butel municipality which previously provided most of the revenue for the Čair municipal budget.[3]

Demographics

According to the national census from 2021, Butel has 37,968 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the municipality include:

2002 2021
Number % Number %
TOTAL 36,154 100 37,968 100
Macedonians 22,506 62.25 17,011 44.8
Albanians 9,107 25.19 14,095 37.12
Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources n/a n/a 2,653 6.99
Turks 1,304 3.61 1,314 3.46
Serbs 1,033 2.86 606 1.6
Bosniaks 970 2.68 1,133 2.98
Roma / / 501 1.32
others 1,234 3.41 655 1.73

Per the 2021 Census Butel had a total population of 40,612, of whom 20,442 were female and 20,170 male.[5]

2021
Number %
TOTAL 37,968 100
Orthodox 13,564 46.4
Christians 3,977
Catholics 89
Islam 17,438 45.9
others 247 0.65
Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 2,653 6.99
Macedonians Albanians Turks Serbs Roma Bosniaks others TOTAL
Year Births % Births % Births % Births % Births % Births % Births % Births
2010 225 49.13 194 42.36 11 2.40 2 0.44 9 1.97 9 1.97 8 1.75 458
2011 260 50.39 207 40.12 16 3.10 2 0.39 7 1.36 10 1.94 14 2.71 516
2012 222 47.64 188 40.34 20 4.29 6 1.29 10 2.15 14 3.00 6 1.29 466
2013 211 45.57 207 44.71 12 2.59 2 0.43 11 2.38 14 3.02 6 1.30 463
2014 223 50.68 174 39.55 18 4.09 2 0.45 9 2.05 8 1.82 6 1.36 440
2015 203 41.18 243 49.29 14 2.84 0 0.00 8 1.62 18 3.65 7 1.42 493
2016 227 44.69 224 44.09 19 3.74 3 0.59 12 2.36 15 2.95 8 1.57 508
2017 214 45.53 202 42.98 11 2.34 1 0.21 10 2.13 14 2.98 18 3.83 470
2018 183 40.58 220 48.78 18 3.99 3 0.67 8 1.77 12 2.66 7 1.55 451
2019 186 38.67 247 51.35 12 2.49 2 0.42 14 2.91 15 3.12 5 1.04 481
2020 164 38.32 217 50.70 8 1.87 2 0.47 11 2.57 19 4.44 7 1.64 428
2021 153 35.01 233 53.32 17 3.89 2 0.46 10 2.29 11 2.52 11 2.52 437
2022 154 35.98 230 53.74 11 2.57 5 1.17 12 2.80 9 2.10 6 1.40 428

Inhabited places

There are 5 inhabited places in this municipality.

Inhabited Places Total Macedonians Albanians Turks Roma Vlachs Serbs Bosnians Others
Butel Municipality 37,968 17,011 14,095 1,314 501 - 606 1,133 1,969
Butel 24.391 10.451 8.646 1.229 258 56 353 1.002 2.396
Ljubanci 1.075 981 - 2 10 1 8 - 73
Ljuboten 2.688 76 2.561 - 7 - 1 - 43
Radišani 6.066 4.904 216 27 138 12 204 103 462
Vizbegovo 3.748 599 2.672 56 88 4 40 28 261

References

  1. ^ a b Ragaru 2008, pp. 542–543. "Skopje encompasses ten municipalities (Aerodrom, Butel, Čair, Centar, Gazi Baba, Gjorče Petrov, Karpoš, Kisela Voda, Saraj, Šuto Orizari), which all have a mayor, a municipal council and the same prerogatives as other municipalities in the country."
  2. ^ a b Ragaru 2008, pp. 536–537.
  3. ^ Ragaru, Nadege (2008). "The Political Uses and Social Lives of "National Heroes": Controversies over Skanderbeg's Statue in Skopje". Südosteuropa. 56 (4): 537. Archived from the original on 2019-02-22. Retrieved 2019-03-01.

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