Podmočani

Podmočani (Подмочани) is a village in the Resen Municipality of the Republic of North Macedonia, north of Lake Prespa. The village is roughly 8 km from the municipal centre of Resen.

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.

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.

Podmočani has 306 residents as of the most recent national census of 2002. The population had increased to 875 in 1981, but has declined in every census since.

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 bishop
 * Atanas Gl'mbočki (1880 - 1926), revolutionary
 * Eftim Kitančev (1868 - 1925), first president of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee
 * Trajko Kitančev (1858 - 1895), revolutionary
 * Kočo Kočovski (? - 1903), revolutionary