Podmočani () is a village in the Resen Municipality of the Republic of North Macedonia, north of Lake Prespa. The village is roughly from the municipal centre of Resen.Podmocani
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.D.M.Brancoff (1905). La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne. Paris. pp. 170.
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. "Горна Преспа... Албанци во истите села каде што денес, освен во Подмочани. Во Подмочани и Сливница (сега само Македонци) имало Македонци - муслимани."
Podmočani has 306 residents as of the most recent national census of 2002.Municipality of Resen The population had increased to 875 in 1981, but has declined in every census since.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 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.
Panaret Bregalnički (1878 - 1944), Orthodox bishopKaratanasov, Zlatko. Черковно-училищната борба (1868 - 1903), Материяли из миналото на Костурско, Костурско благотворително братство, Sofia, 1935, стр. 32. Atanas Gl'mbočki (1880 - 1926), revolutionaryNikolov, Boris Y. Вътрешна македоно-одринска революционна организация. Войводи и ръководители (1893-1934). Биографично-библиографски справочник, Sofia, 2001, стр. 34. Eftim Kitančev (1868 - 1925), first president of the Bulgarian Olympic CommitteeОфицерският корпус в България 1878-1944, съставител Rumen Rumenin, т. III-IV, Sofia 1996, с. 103. Trajko Kitančev (1858 - 1895), revolutionary Kočo Kočovski (? - 1903), revolutionary
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