Tresonče
Place in Polog, North Macedonia
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Tresonče (Macedonian: Тресонче [ˈtrɛsɔnt͡ʃɛ]) is a mountainous village located in the Mavrovo and Rostuša Municipality in western North Macedonia. It is a mountain village populated by Macedonian Orthodox Christians. There are also several Orthodox churches in the village.[1]
Tresonče
Тресонче | |
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 Panoramic view of the village | |
  Tresonče Location within North Macedonia | |
| Country |  North Macedonia |
| Region |  Polog |
| Municipality |  Mavrovo and Rostuša |
| Population (2021) | |
• Total | 24 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Demographics
Tresonče (Trasniça) is attested in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a village in the ziamet of Reka which was under the authority of Karagöz Bey. The village appears as an uninhabited.[2]
According to the statistics of the Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov from 1900, 1320 inhabitants lived in the village of Tresonče, all Bulgarians.[3]
According to the Secretary of the Bulgarian Exarchate Dimitar Mišev ("La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne"), in 1905 there were 1680 Bulgarians (exarchists) in Tresonče.[4]
According to a 1929 ethnographic map by Russian Slavist Afanasy Selishchev, Tresonče was a Bulgarian village.[5]
According to the 1942 Albanian census, Tresonče was inhabited by 454 Bulgarians.[6]
The village is traditionally inhabited by the ethnographic group of Mijaks,[7] the inhabitants identifying as ethnic Macedonians (as of the 2021 census; 24 inhabitants).[8]
Notable people
- Dimitar Krstev, known as Dičo Zograf, icon painter
- Dimitar Pandilov - Artist skilled in Macedonian arts, considered the founder of modern Macedonian art.
- Andrey Damyanov - Although not born in Tresonče, his family was from there, he was a very famous architect in North Macedonia.
- Josif Mihajlović Jurukovski (1887–1941), mayor of Skopje, born in Tresonče
- Toma Smiljanić-Bradina (1888–1969), Serbian ethnographer, philologist, dramatist and publicist, born in Tresonče
- Sirma Voyvoda, Bulgarian rebel. Considered a national heroine in North Macedonia.[9]