Bolno () is a village in the Resen Municipality of North Macedonia, near the mountain of Galičica. Located under east of the municipal centre of Resen, the village has 237 residents. It is also home to a football club, FK Ilinden.
History Bolno is located near the Iron Age site of Selishte, which excavations of the 2010s characterized as an Illyrian fort in the Prespa-Ohrid lakeland region.
In the early 20th century, the village had population of 640 Bulgarian Exarchists. There was also Bulgarian school in Bolno (Bouno).Brancoff, D.M. "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne". Paris, 1905, pp. 170-171.
During the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising of 1903, Bolno was looted and its 96 houses were burnt down.Илюстрация Илинден, 1943, бр.142, стр.15
Demographics Bolno has historically been inhabited by Orthodox Bulgarians. According to the censuses after 1948 the local population is consisted of ethnic Macedonians.
Ethnicgroup census 1961 census 1971 census 1981 census 1991 census 1994 census 2002 Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Macedonians 596 99.3 475 99.0 510 98.7 432 99.5 287 99.3 234 98.7 others 4 0.7 5 1.0 7 1.4 2 0.5 2 0.7 3 1.3 Total 600 480 517 434 289 237
People from Bolno Dimitar Bogoevski (1918 - 1942), communist revolutionary and poet Evtim Bogoev (? - 1908), revolutionary, IMARO activist.Николов, Борис Й. Вътрешна македоно-одринска революционна организация. Войводи и ръководители (1893-1934). Биографично-библиографски справочник, София, 2001, стр. 20.
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