Liqenas

Liqenas or Liqenasi ( _mk. Пустец, Pustec) is a municipality in the Korçë District of Albania, which is home to a sizable percentage of the officially recognized ethnic Macedonian minority in that country. The mayor of Liqenas is Edmond Vangjel Themelko, who is Macedonian. [http://www.southeasteurope.org/documents/0009albminorities.pdf “ON THE STATUS OF THE MINORITIES IN THE REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA”] , Albanian Helsinki Committee with support of the Finnish Foundation ‘KIOS’ and “Finnish NGO Foundation for Human Rights”. Hosted at SEE developed by the Applied Research and Communications Fund in Sofia (www.arc.online.bg) under a two-year project sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development USAID.] ["Regarding the Macedonian population living in Prespa area (region of Kortcha). Their condition is described in positive terms and particular praise is given to the fact that all the villages of the area have classes in their mother tongue.", source: [http://www.ihf-hr.org/viewbinary/viewdocument.php?doc_id=1932 Minority Rights in Albania] , page 3 - Albanian Helsinki Committee, September 1999]

Villages in the Pustec District

*Lajthiza
*Pustec
*Zrnovsko
*Tserje
*Šulin
*Glubočani
*Dolna Gorica
*Bezmishti
*Gorna Gorica.

Notable people from Pustec

*Edmond Temelko

References

ee also

*Mala Prespa and Golo Brdo
*Municipalities of Albania
*Macedonians in Albania
*Macedonia (region)