Dolna Bela Crkva (, meaning Lower White Church; ) is a village in the Resen Municipality of North Macedonia, north of Lake Prespa. The village, located roughly from the municipal centre of Resen, has 237 residents.
Demographics Dolna Bela Crkva has an Orthodox ethnic Macedonian majority, with a significant Muslim Albanian Sunni and Bektashi minority, of whom the latter are known locally as Kolonjarë.Censuses of population 1948 - 2002 Sunni Albanians in Dolna Bela Crkva traditionally highlighted their religious identity over a linguistic one having closer economic and social relations with Turks and Macedonian Muslims in the region and being distant from Orthodox Macedonians. Over time these differences have disappeared through intermarriage, closer communal and cultural relations with Bektashi and other Sunni Prespa Albanian communities in the region.
As of the 2021 census, Dolna Bela Crkva had 179 residents.Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
Ethnicgroup census 1961 census 1971 census 1981 census 1991 census 1994 census 2002 census 2021 Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Macedonians 222 65.1 230 56.9 259 64.8 215 70.7 167 67.1 156 65.8 117 65.4 Albanians 119 34.9 173 42.8 138 34.5 82 27.0 82 32.9 81 34.2 56 31.3 others 0 0.0 1 0.3 3 0.8 7 2.3 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 6 3.4 Total 341 404 400 304 249 237 179
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