[1] Situated on the southwestern shore of Lake Prespa, it is home to much of the Macedonian minority in Albania.

[2] Pustec is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Prespa and is the nearest village to the island of Maligrad.

[4] The La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne survey by Dimitar Mishev (D. Brancoff) from 1905 shows that the inhabitants of the village of Pustec (Bulgarian: Пустец)[5][6][7][8] were in the bosom of the Bulgarian Exarchate.

[9] The French linguist André Mazon in his study on Slavic folklore in Albania from 1936 noted Pustec as a Bulgarian village in the region of Mala Prespa.

In 2013, however, the original Slavic name, Pustec, was once again made official by the Albanian government.