Pretor () is a village in the Resen Municipality of North Macedonia, on the northeastern shore of Lake Prespa. It is over south of the municipal centre of Resen.
History Pretor's oldest church, St Sava, is dated from the 14th century.
Demographics According to the statistics of Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov from 1900 the settlement is recorded as "Pretorče" and as having 138 inhabitants, all Bulgarian Exarchists.Vasil Kanchov. "Macedonia. "Ethnography and statistics." Sofia, 1900, p. 241 Pretor has 142 inhabitants as of the most recent census of 2002.Municipality of Resen The majority ethnic group in the village has been the Macedonians.Censuses of population 1948 - 2002
Ethnicgroup census 1961 census 1971 census 1981 census 1991 census 1994 census 2002 Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Macedonians 218 99.1 234 100 185 97.4 170 97.4 149 97.3 138 97.1 others 2 0.9 0 0.0 5 2.6 4 2.6 4 2.7 4 2.9 Total 220 234 190 174 153 142
People from Pretor Pande Eftimov (1932 - 2017), poet and journalistSotyanova, Virginia. Българи от близката чужбина Македония, Албания, Сърбия, Румъния, Молдова, Украйна, Университетско издателство „Св. Климент Охридски“, Sofia, 2005, стр.43 Pande Sudžov (1882 - 1927), member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary OrganizationMihaylov, Ivan. Спомени, т. IV, 1973, с. 139, Каспаров, Христо. Прв обид за портрет на преспанскиот револуционерен деец Панде Иванов Суджов (1882-1927). (2) - Крвавата драма одиграна на брегот на Преспанското Езеро, Македонско дело, година VII, број 349, 7.7.2000, с. 71.
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