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![[Flag of Sopotnica]](../images/m/mk-sopot.gif)
by Ivan Sache
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Sopotnica is located in the south-western part of Macedonia, on the Plakjenska mountain and the valley of Crna river, that is between Ohrid and Kičevo. By the 2003 territorial division of Macedonia, the rural municipality of Sopotnica was attached to Demir Hisar. It has 2,319 inhabitants according to the 2002 census.
According to Bostjan Burger's Waterfall Dictionary Slovene-English, Sopotnica means "stream where are waterfalls" (old name) and is cognate to sopot, sapet, supot, the old name for waterfall, usually stream where are whitewaters or small waterfalls. There are indeed several places (city, rivers) named Sopotnica, in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Bulgaria and Poland.
The Sopotnica mine was the subject of the industrial film Demir Hisar Mine - "Sopotnica" (1971, 14 minutes), created in standard technique, with sound, in black and white and 35mm. The film presents the process of opening the new mine, the stages of mounting of the new lines and the new miner's settlement. The mine is probably still alive since there is a company called Zeleznik AD, producing castings, located in Sopotnica.
Ivan Sache, 27 January 2004
The flag and arms of the former municipality of Soponitca can be seen on the website of the United Nations Development Program in Macedonia.
The flag is red with the municipal arms in canton, following a pattern observed in other Macedonian municipal flags such as Džepčište, Kisela Voda and Skopje in the former Yugoslavia.
![[Coat of arms of Sopotnica]](../images/m/mk)sopot.gif)
from the
UNPD
website
The arms are red, quartered by a yellow cross, with yellow attributes. I bears the Macedonian sun, II bears three wavy lines probably symbolizing a river, III bears three firs and a mountain, as well as two crossed hammers symbolizing mining industry, and IV bears a flower.
Ivan Sache & Pascal Vagnat, 27 January 2004