Tuminec

Tuminec (Albanian: Tuminec, formally Bezmisht and Kallamas; Macedonian: Туминец) is a village just north of the Albanian portion of Lake Prespa in the Pustec Municipality of the Korçë County.[1][2] The villages of Konjsko and Stenje are opposite the Albania-North Macedonia border from Tuminec.

Tuminec

Bezmisht
Kallamas
Туминец
Village
Tuminec
Coordinates: 40°53′58″N 20°56′21″E
Country Albania
CountyKorçë
MunicipalityPustec
Municipal unitPustec
Population
 (2000)
 • Total658
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

History

According to archaeological evidence found in 2011, the Tuminec area was inhabited during Neolithic times.[3]

The nearby Church of the Holy Mother of God, a rock church, was built in the 14th century.[4] The village was mentioned in the Slepche Beadroll from the end of XVI century.[5]

In 1900, Vasil Kanchov gathered and compiled statistics on demographics in the area and reported that the village of Tumanets (Туманецъ) was inhabited by about 360 Bulgarian Christians.[6] Following the Ilinden Uprising of 1903, Tuminec came under the Bulgarian Exarchate. According to a Bulgarian survey two years later, the village's population consisted of 520 Christian Bulgarians.[7]

Until 1970, the official Albanian name for the village was Bezmisht;[8] it then became Kallamas. In 2013, the official name was changed back to Tuminec.[9]

Demographics

According to Yugoslav sources from 1981, the village was populated exclusively by Macedonians.[10]

A 2007 estimate put the village population around 950 to 1,000 residents.[11]

Culture

Tuminec is the nearest village to the Orthodox Church of the Holy Mother of God, situated on a rocky ridge about 10 meters from the Macedonian border. Some of the older paintings in the church date from the 18th century.[12] It is also home to the Church of St Demetrius.

Tuminec has a football club, FK Tuminec, that competes with other villages in the Prespa area of Pustec.[13]

References
  1. Law nr. 115/2014 Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Census Data". INSTAT. Archived from the original on 5 May 2014. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  3. Sterjovski, Vasil. "ОТКРИЕНА НЕОЛИТСКА НАСЕЛБА КАЈ ТУМИНЕЦ, МАЛА ПРЕСПА" (in Macedonian). grid.mk. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  4. Penev, Boyan (2007). Scripta & E-scripta. 5. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  5. Гергова, Иванка. Поменици от Македония в български сбирки, София, 2006, с. 74.
  6. Vasil Kanchov (1901). Васил Кънчов. „Македония. Етнография и статистика“. София, 1900, стр.241. (Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics, p. 241. Accessed 13 May 2018 (in Bulgarian)
  7. D.M.Brancoff. "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne". Paris, 1905, p.170-171.
  8. 1970 renaming decision
  9. "Pas Pustecit, edhe 7 fshatra të Korçës me emertime maqedonase" (in Albanian). Info Arkiv. 17 April 2013. Archived from the original on 5 August 2014. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  10. Toso Popovski, Makedonsko nacionalno malcinstvo vo Grcija, Bugarija i Albanija, Makedonska Kniga, 1981, p 276.
  11. Бело, Раки. Селищни имена в Мала Преспа - Албания, в: Македонски преглед, ХХХ, №3, стр.135.
  12. Angeličin-Žura, Goce. Пештерните цркви во Охридско-Преспанскиот регион (Р. Македонија, Р. Албанија, Р. Грција) (PDF). Ниш: В: „Ниш и Византија IV: зборник радова“; Симпозиум „Ниш и Византија IV“, Зборник радова IV, Ниш, 3 - 5 юни 2005. p. 397. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2011. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  13. Sterjovski, Vasil (26 May 2010). "ФК Туминец победник на традиционалниот фудбалски турнир "ПРЕСПА" 2010". Makedonska Nacija (in Macedonian). Retrieved 4 May 2014.
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