Podmočani ( mk, Подмочани) is a village in the
Resen Municipality
Resen ( mk, Ресен ) is a municipality in southwestern Republic of North 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
The ...
of the
Republic of North Macedonia
North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Socialist Feder ...
, north of
Lake Prespa
The Lake Prespa is located on the tripoint of North Macedonia, Albania, and Greece. It is a system of two lakes separated by an isthmus: the Great Prespa Lake, divided between the three countries, and the Little Prespa Lake, mostly within Greec ...
. The village is roughly from the municipal centre of
Resen.
Demographics
Podmočani is inhabited by an Orthodox Macedonian majority and during the course of the 20th century by a small
Sunni Muslim Albanian minority.
During the late Ottoman period,
Macedonian Muslims
The Macedonian Muslims ( mk, Македонци-муслимани, Makedonci-muslimani), also known as Muslim Macedonians or ''Torbeši'' ( mk, Торбеши), and in some sources grouped together with Pomaks, are a minority religious group w ...
also used to reside in Podmočani.
[ "Горна Преспа... Албанци во истите села каде што денес, освен во Подмочани. Во Подмочани и Сливница (сега само Македонци) имало Македонци - муслимани."]
Podmočani has 306 residents as of the most recent national census of 2002. The population had increased to 875 in 1981, but has declined in every census since.
[Censuses of population 1948 - 2002](_blank)
Gallery
File:Podmočani village 3.jpg, Architecture of Podmočani
File:Podmočani stara kukja.JPG, A remnant of traditional architecture in Podmočani
File:Podmočani village 8.jpg, Architecture of Podmočani
File:Викиекспедиција Преспа 400.jpg, Centre of Podmočani and village river
File:Podmočani village 2.jpg, Yugoslav era monument to fallen partisans, Podmočani
File:Викиекспедиција Преспа 396.jpg, Primary and secondary school of Podmočani
File:Викиекспедиција Преспа 395.jpg, Bust of fallen Yugoslav partisan in school yard
File:Etnološki podmočani.JPG, Ethnographic museum of Podmočani
File:Podmočani village 9.jpg, Fields of Podmočani
File:Викиекспедиција Преспа 405.jpg, St. George church and Orthodox cemetery of Podmočani
File:Викиекспедиција Преспа 418.jpg, Church of Sts. Peter and Paul with the Prespa Cross, Podmočani, built and donated by Boris Nitchoff
File:Podmočani village 25.jpg, Fields of Podmočani
People from Podmočani
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Panaret Bregalnički (1878 - 1944), Orthodox bishop
[Karatanasov, Zlatko. Черковно-училищната борба (1868 - 1903), Материяли из миналото на Костурско, Костурско благотворително братство, Sofia, 1935, стр. 32.]
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Atanas Gl'mbočki (1880 - 1926), revolutionary
[Nikolov, Boris Y. Вътрешна македоно-одринска революционна организация. Войводи и ръководители (1893-1934). Биографично-библиографски справочник, Sofia, 2001, стр. 34.]
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Eftim Kitančev (1868 - 1925), first president of the
Bulgarian Olympic Committee
The Bulgarian Olympic Committee ( bg, Български олимпийски комитет, ''Balgarski olimpiyski komitet''; abbreviated as БОК, BOC) is a non-profit organization serving as the National Olympic Committee of Bulgaria and a pa ...
[Офицерският корпус в България 1878-1944, съставител Rumen Rumenin, т. III-IV, Sofia 1996, с. 103.]
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Trajko Kitančev (1858 - 1895), revolutionary
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Kočo Kočovski (? - 1903), revolutionary
References
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Villages in Resen Municipality