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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.

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.

Podmočani is inhabited by an Orthodox Macedonian majority and during the course of the 20th century by a small Sunni Muslim Albanian minority. During the late Ottoman period, Torbeš also used to reside in Podmočani.

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.

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

People from Podmočani

  • 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.
Prespanska Četa - 1915
Globočki Ancestral Home

References

  1. ^ Podmocani
  2. ^ D.M.Brancoff (1905). La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne. Paris. pp. 170.
  3. ^ Sugarman, Jane (1997). Engendering song: Singing and subjectivity at Prespa Albanian weddings. University of Chicago Press. pp. 9–11. ISBN 9780226779720.
  4. ^ 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."
  5. ^ Municipality of Resen
  6. ^ Censuses of population 1948 - 2002 Archived 2013-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Karatanasov, Zlatko. Черковно-училищната борба (1868 - 1903), Материяли из миналото на Костурско, Костурско благотворително братство, Sofia, 1935, стр. 32.
  8. ^ Nikolov, Boris Y. Вътрешна македоно-одринска революционна организация. Войводи и ръководители (1893-1934). Биографично-библиографски справочник, Sofia, 2001, стр. 34.
  9. ^ Офицерският корпус в България 1878-1944, съставител Rumen Rumenin, т. III-IV, Sofia 1996, с. 103.


41°01′N 21°03′E / 41.017°N 21.050°E / 41.017; 21.050

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