Podmočani

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]

Podmočani Подмочани
Village
Podmočani centre and river
Podmočani Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 41°01′28″N 21°03′02″E
Country	North Macedonia
Region	Pelagonia
Municipality	Resen
Population  (2002)
• Total	306
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code(s)	+389
Car plates	RE

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]

Panorama showing the Baba mountains (west), Podmočani (centre-east) and in the distant background Grnčari village, Lake Prespa and the Galičica mountains (centre-west)

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
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  A remnant of traditional architecture in Podmočani
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  Architecture of Podmočani
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  Centre of Podmočani and village river
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  Yugoslav era monument to fallen partisans, Podmočani
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  Primary and secondary school of Podmočani
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  Bust of fallen Yugoslav partisan in school yard
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  Ethnographic museum of Podmočani
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  Fields of Podmočani
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  St. George church and Orthodox cemetery of Podmočani
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  Church of Sts. Peter and Paul with the Prespa Cross, Podmočani, built and donated by Boris Nitchoff
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  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

1. Podmocani
2. Sugarman, Jane (1997). Engendering song: Singing and subjectivity at Prespa Albanian weddings. University of Chicago Press. pp. 9–11. ISBN 9780226779720.
3. Włodzimierz, Pianka (1970). Toponomastikata na Ohridsko-Prespanskiot bazen. Institut za makedonski jazik "Krste Misirkov". pp. 128–129. "Горна Преспа... Албанци во истите села каде што денес, освен во Подмочани. Во Подмочани и Сливница (сега само Македонци) имало Македонци - муслимани."
4. Municipality of Resen
5. Censuses of population 1948 - 2002 Archived 2013-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
6. Karatanasov, Zlatko. Черковно-училищната борба (1868 - 1903), Материяли из миналото на Костурско, Костурско благотворително братство, Sofia, 1935, стр. 32.
7. Nikolov, Boris Y. Вътрешна македоно-одринска революционна организация. Войводи и ръководители (1893-1934). Биографично-библиографски справочник, Sofia, 2001, стр. 34.
8. Офицерският корпус в България 1878-1944, съставител Rumen Rumenin, т. III-IV, Sofia 1996, с. 103.