Дупени - Dupeni
General information
Population Population A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals...	294
Area Code	+389
Coordinates	40.876 N 21.120 E

Dupeni is a village in the Resen municipality

Resen municipality

Resen is a municipality in southwestern Republic of Macedonia. Resen is also the name of the town where the municipal seat is found. Resen Municipality is located in the Pelagonia Statistical Region.-Geography:...

 of Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia

Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...

. The village is located right on Prespa Lake and has a very nice beach. Dupeni is divided into two mahala

Mahala

Mahala is a Balkan word for "neighbourhood" or "quarter", a section of a rural or urban settlement, dating to the times of the Ottoman Empire. It was brought to the area through Ottoman Turkish mahalle, but it originates in Arabic mähallä, from the root meaning "to settle", "to occupy"...

s, Dolno Dupeni and Gorno Dupeni ('Lower Dupeni' and 'Upper Dupeni').

People

Gorno Dupeni and Dolno Dupeni combined have around 294 inhabitants. All of them are Macedonians

Macedonians (ethnic group)

The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs: "... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness...

, they all speak Macedonian

Macedonian language

Macedonian is a South Slavic language spoken as a first language by approximately 2–3 million people principally in the region of Macedonia but also in the Macedonian diaspora...

 and are Macedonian Orthodox.

Dupeni in popular culture

The popular Macedonian show, Progrešno Vreme, is set in and also takes place in the village of Dupeni.