Glloboçen (, formerly Gollomboç; Macedonian and Bulgarian: Глобочени) is a village on Lake Prespa in the Pustec Municipality located in the Korçë County in Albania.
Geography Glloboçeni is situated on the western shore of the Greater Prespa Lake at an altitude of 879 meters (2884 feet) above sea level. The nearest settlement to the north is Dolna Gorica and to the south is Šulin.
History The "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne" survey by Dimitar Mishev (D. Brankov) from 1905 shows that the inhabitants of the village of Glubochani were in the bosom of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.D.M.Brancoff. "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne". Paris, 1905, p.170-171 (in French)
A survey by Georgi Trajchev in 1911 stated the village as having 33 houses and 319 residents.Трайчев, Георги. Български селища в днешна Албания, в: Отецъ Паисий, 15-31 юли 1929 година, стр. 212. (in Bulgarian)
The French linguist André Mazon, in his study on Slavic folklore in Albania from 1936, noted Glomboč as a Bulgarian village in the region of Mala Prespa.
During World War II, 24 of the village's 40 houses were burnt down.
In 2013, the village's official name was changed back from Gollomboç to Glloboçeni.
Demographics A 2007 estimate put the village's population at 300 to 350 people.Belo, Raki. Селищни имена в Мала Преспа - Албания, в: Македонски преглед, 2008, година ХХХ, №3, стр. 135. The village is composed of ethnic Macedonians, which form part of the larger Macedonian minority in Albania. According to Bulgarian sources, including a local one, the local inhabitants are Bulgarians.Българите в района на Корча и Мала Преспа (Албания) - съвременна картина, Балканистичен Форум, 2005, №1-3, с. 113-129 (Pashova, Anastasija. Bulgarians in the region of Korcha and Mala Prespa (Albania) nowadays, Balcanistic forum, 2005, issue No: 1-3, pp. 113-129.) YearPopulation 1900 248 1926 472 1945 346 1960 217 1969 239 1979 252 1989 299 2000 294
Culture Glloboçeni is the nearest village to the Church of the Annunciation, a rock church situated on the Lake Prespa shore at an altitude of roughly 25 meters (80 feet). It was established in the 14th century.
People from Glloboçeni Sotir Kaleškov, member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary OrganizationПесен за Илия Дигалов , taken from Bulgarian WikiSource Ilinden Spasse, writer, son of Sterjo Spasse Sterjo Spasse, writer Gjorgi Tane, politician
References