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 m ...

of the

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, north of

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. 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

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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

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

* Panaret Bregalnički (1878 - 1944), Orthodox bishopKaratanasov, Zlatko. Черковно-училищната борба (1868 - 1903), Материяли из миналото на Костурско, Костурско благотворително братство, Sofia, 1935, стр. 32. * Atanas Gl'mbočki (1880 - 1926), revolutionaryNikolov, Boris Y. Вътрешна македоно-одринска революционна организация. Войводи и ръководители (1893-1934). Биографично-библиографски справочник, Sofia, 2001, стр. 34. * Eftim Kitančev (1868 - 1925), first president of the

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Офицерският корпус в България 1878-1944, съставител Rumen Rumenin, т. III-IV, Sofia 1996, с. 103. * Trajko Kitančev (1858 - 1895), revolutionary * Kočo Kočovski (? - 1903), revolutionary

References

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