Pustec

[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.

Church in Pustec
Chapel in Pustec
Bilingual road sign in Pustec written in both Albanian (top) and Macedonian (bottom)