Podmočani
Podmočani
Подмочани | |
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Village | |
 Podmočani centre and river | |
  Podmočani Location within North Macedonia | |
| Coordinates: 41°01′28″N 21°03′02″E / 41.02444°N 21.05056°E | |
| Country |  North Macedonia |
| Region |  Pelagonia |
| Municipality |  Resen |
| Population (2002) | |
| • Total | 306 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Area code | +389 |
| Car plates | RE |
Podmočani (Macedonian: Подмочани) is a village in the Resen Municipality of the Republic of North Macedonia, north of Lake Prespa. The village is roughly 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from the municipal centre of Resen.[1]
Demographics
Podmočani is inhabited by an Orthodox Macedonian majority and during the course of the 20th century by a small Sunni Muslim Albanian minority.[2] During the late Ottoman period, Macedonian Muslims also used to reside in Podmočani.[3]
Podmočani has 306 residents as of the most recent national census of 2002.[4] The population had increased to 875 in 1981, but has declined in every census since.[5]
| Ethnic group |
census 1961 | census 1971 | census 1981 | census 1991 | census 1994 | census 2002 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
| Macedonians | 685 | 94.4 | 720 | 97.0 | 818 | 93.5 | 552 | 97.5 | 338 | 96.6 | 302 | 98.7 |
| Albanians | 40 | 5.5 | 17 | 2.3 | 8 | 0.9 | 3 | 0.5 | 11 | 3.1 | 2 | 0.7 |
| others | 1 | 0.1 | 5 | 0.7 | 49 | 5.6 | 11 | 1.9 | 1 | 0.3 | 2 | 0.7 |
| Total | 726 | 742 | 875 | 566 | 350 | 306 | ||||||
Gallery
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Architecture of Podmočani -
A remnant of traditional architecture in Podmočani -
Architecture of Podmočani -
Centre of Podmočani and village river -
Yugoslav era monument to fallen partisans, Podmočani -
Primary and secondary school of Podmočani -
Bust of fallen Yugoslav partisan in school yard -
Ethnographic museum of Podmočani -
Fields of Podmočani -
St. George church and Orthodox cemetery of Podmočani -
Church of Sts. Peter and Paul with the Prespa Cross, Podmočani, built and donated by Boris Nitchoff -
Fields of Podmočani
People from Podmočani
- Panaret Bregalnički (1878 - 1944), Orthodox bishop[6]
- Atanas Gl'mbočki (1880 - 1926), revolutionary[7]
- Eftim Kitančev (1868 - 1925), first president of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee[8]
- Trajko Kitančev (1858 - 1895), revolutionary
- Kočo Kočovski (? - 1903), revolutionary[7]
References
- ^ Podmocani
- ^ Sugarman, Jane (1997). Engendering song: Singing and subjectivity at Prespa Albanian weddings. University of Chicago Press. pp. 9–11. ISBN 9780226779720.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - ^ Włodzimierz, Pianka (1970). Toponomastikata na Ohridsko-Prespanskiot bazen. Institut za makedonski jazik "Krste Misirkov". pp. 128–129.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) "Горна Преспа... Албанци во истите села каде што денес, освен во Подмочани. Во Подмочани и Сливница (сега само Македонци) имало Македонци - муслимани." - ^ Municipality of Resen
- ^ Censuses of population 1948 - 2002 Archived 2013-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Karatanasov, Zlatko. Черковно-училищната борба (1868 - 1903), Материяли из миналото на Костурско, Костурско благотворително братство, Sofia, 1935, стр. 32.
- ^ a b Nikolov, Boris Y. Вътрешна македоно-одринска революционна организация. Войводи и ръководители (1893-1934). Биографично-библиографски справочник, Sofia, 2001, стр. 34.
- ^ Офицерският корпус в България 1878-1944, съставител Rumen Rumenin, т. III-IV, Sofia 1996, с. 103.
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