History
At the beginning of the 20th century the village was a homestead owned by a landlord. The houses of the natives were built on his land and that is why they paid an annual fee of 13Demographics
Traditionally Peštani is inhabited by Orthodox Macedonians and in the Ottoman period by a small Turkish minority. In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Peštani was inhabited by 560 Bulgarian Christians and 50 Muslim Bulgarians. The chief Bulgarian teacher in the region of Ohrid, Yakim Derebanov wrote in his report from 1905 that there were 110 Bulgarian houses in the village, inhabited by 640 Bulgarian Christians and 16 Turkish houses, inhabited by 70 Turks-Muslims. There was a tendency for emigration of the local Turks.Етнография на Македония. Извори и материали в два тома, т. 2, София 1992, с. 29 (Ethnography of Macedonia. Sources and materials in two volumes, vol. 2, Sofia 1992, p. 29.) - "Селото има 110 къщи с 640 д. бълг.-християнско население и 16 къщи със 70 д. турско-мохамеданско население...Турците от някое време насам почнали да напускат селото и да продават имуществата си на българите...". By 1920, the Turks of Peštani () sold their houses and fields, some arable, moving to Ohrid where a few families live today known as ''Peştanlı''. Elderly inhabitants of Peštani relate that the Turks of the village were not Islamised Slavs or Albanians, but of pure Ottoman Turkish stock and local traditions are absent about any Islamisation of local Slavic population. "Денеска во Охридско живеат неколку турски семејства познати како Пештанлии. Тие се, имено, преселници од селото. По 1920 год. нема во Пештани „Турци" староседелци. Напуштајќи го селото, муслиманите ги продале куќите и полињата. Главниот дел од обработливата земја ја откупило семејството Зимоски, понапрешни месни богаташи.... Слично како и другите постари жители на селото, така и Зимоски тврди дека Пештанските муслимани биле чистокрвни османлиски Турци, а не биле потурчени Словени или пак Албанци. Потврда за потурчување на месните жители најверојатно би се зачувала во усната традиција." According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 1,326 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:Macedonian Census (2002)References
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