Podmočani Подмочани | |
|---|---|
Village | |
 Podmočani centre and river | |
  Podmočani Location within North Macedonia | |
| Coordinates:41°01′28″N21°03′02″E / 41.02444°N 21.05056°E /41.02444; 21.05056 | |
| Country |  North Macedonia |
| Region |  Pelagonia |
| Municipality |  Resen |
| Population (2002) | |
• Total | 306 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Area code | +389 |
| Car plates | RE |
Podmočani (Macedonian:Подмочани) is a village in theResen Municipality of theRepublic of North Macedonia, north ofLake Prespa. The village is roughly 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from the municipal centre ofResen.[1]
According to Dimitar Mishev Brancoff, in his statistics gathered about the population of Macedonia, the Christian population of Podmočani was 688 BulgarianExarchists and 42Albanians.[2]
Podmočani is inhabited by an Orthodox Macedonian majority and during the course of the 20th century by a smallSunni Muslim Albanian minority.[3] During the late Ottoman period,Torbeš also used to reside in Podmočani.[4]
Podmočani has 306 residents as of the most recent national census of 2002.[5] The population had increased to 875 in 1981, but has declined in every census since.[6]
| Ethnic group | 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 | ||||||
