Podgorci (, ) is a small village in the municipality of Struga, North Macedonia.
History The etymology of Podgorci may be the same/ similar to the etymology of Podgorica, the capital city of Montenegro. Podgorica literally means "under the hill". Gorica, a diminutive of the word Gora, which is another word for Mountain or Hill, it means "little/small hill". This Slavic toponym is present throughout the Balkan region.
In 1900, Vasil Kanchov gathered and compiled statistics on demographics in the area and reported that the village of Podgorci was inhabited by about 600 Bulgarian Christians and 550 Bulgarian Muslims.Vasil Kanchov (1901). Кънчов, Васил. Македония. Етнография и статистика, София, 1900, стр. 254. (Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics, p. 254. Accessed 30 January 2018 (in Bulgarian)
The "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne" survey by Dimitar Mishev (D. Brankov) concluded that the Christian part of the local population in 1905 was composed of 288 Exarchist Bulgarians and 352 Patriarchist Bulgarians. There were Bulgarian and Serbian schools in the beginning of 20th centuryD.M.Brancoff. "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne". Paris, 1905, pp. 164-165. Accessed 30 January 2018 (in French)
According to the 1943 Albanian census, Podgorci (recorded as "Podgore") was inhabited by 260 Muslim Albanians and 952 Orthodox Bulgarians].
Demographics Podgorci has been inhabited by Orthodox Christian Macedonians and a Torbeš population. p. 333. "Исламизираните Македонци во струшките села Јабланица, Боро(в)ец, Октиси, Подгорци и Лабуништа живеат заедно со православното население".Етнография на Македония. Извори и материали в два тома, т. 2, София 1992, с. 74. Рапорт на Яким Деребанов - "Селото е смесено от българе-християни и бълг[ари-мухамедани]".
Population As of the 2021 census, Podgorci had 2,430 residents with the following ethnic composition:Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021 Turks 857 Others (including Torbeš) 642 Albanians 583 Macedonians 243 Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 87 Bosniaks 18
2002 Population: 2,160 Macedonians 376 Albanians 573 Turks 564 Vlachs 7 Serbs 41 Other 599
Languages Languages spoken among the population of Podgorci:Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, pp. 131, 268
Macedonian 1995 Albanian 89 Turkish 22 Bosnian 1 Rest 53
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