Podmočani () is a village in the
Resen Municipality
Resen ( ) is a municipality in southwestern Republic of North Macedonia. ''Resen, 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.
Geograp ...
of the
Republic of North Macedonia
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, 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
According to Dimitar Mishev Brancoff, in his statistics gathered about the population of Macedonia, the Christian population of Podmočani was 688 Bulgarian
Exarchists and 42
Albanians
The Albanians are an ethnic group native to the Balkan Peninsula who share a common Albanian ancestry, Albanian culture, culture, Albanian history, history and Albanian language, language. They are the main ethnic group of Albania and Kosovo, ...
.
Podmočani is inhabited by an Orthodox Macedonian majority and during the course of the 20th century by a small
Sunni
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Muslim Albanian minority.
During the late Ottoman period,
Torbeš 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)
People from Podmočani
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Lazo Globočki (1877 - 1915), Kmet (Regional Property and Dispute Adjudicator) for 11 villages with Administrative Centre in Podmočani located at current Globočki owned property at centre of village. Revolutionary Leader for regional Četa. Assassinated in 1915 by Serbian forces while fighting for the freedom of the Macedonian people and Macedonian lands.
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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 (; abbreviated as БОК, BOC) is a non-profit organization serving as the National Olympic Committee of Bulgaria and a part of the International Olympic Committee.
History
The Bulgarian Olympic committee was forme ...
[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