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Stenje

Stenje
Стење
Village
Stenje as seen from Galičica
Stenje as seen from Galičica
Stenje is located in Republic of Macedonia
Stenje
Stenje
Location within Macedonia
Coordinates: 40°56′1″N 20°55′0″E / 40.93361°N 20.91667°E / 40.93361; 20.91667
Country  Macedonia
Municipality Resen Municipality
Population (2002)
 • Total 438
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Area code(s) +389
Car plates RE

Stenje (Macedonian: Стење) is a village in the Resen Municipality of the Republic of Macedonia. It is located on the shore of Lake Prespa, near the Macedonian-Albanian border and Galičica National Park. Today, the village has 438 inhabitants.

As of the most recent national census in 2002, Stenje has an ethnically homogeneous population of Macedonians. The village is also one of only four in the municipality to have gained population from the 1994 census to the latest one.

All but one of the villagers declared Macedonian to be their mother tongue.

All of Stenje's residents identified as Macedonian Orthodox in the previous census. The village has four churches including the Church of St Atanas, the Church of Ss Cyril and Methodius, the Church of St Nicholas, and the Church of the Presentation of the Holy Mother of God.

Coordinates: 40°56′N 20°55′E / 40.933°N 20.917°E / 40.933; 20.917


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