Tuminec

Tuminec
Туминец
Village
Tuminec
Coordinates: 40°53′57.84″N 20°56′21.12″E / 40.8994000°N 20.9392000°ECoordinates: 40°53′57.84″N 20°56′21.12″E / 40.8994000°N 20.9392000°E
Country  Albania
County Korçë County
District Korçë District
Municipality Pustec Municipality
Population (2000)
 • Total 658
Time zone Central European Time (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)

Tuminec (Macedonian: Туминец) is a village just north of the Albanian portion of Lake Prespa in the Pustec Municipality of the Korçë District.[1] The village of Konjsko is opposite the Albania-Macedonia border from Tuminec.

History

According to archaeological evidence found in 2011, the Tuminec area was inhabited during Neolithic times.[2]

The nearby Church of the Holy Mother of God, a rock church, was built in the 14th century.[3]

Following the Ilinden Uprising of 1903, Tuminec came under the Bulgarian Exarchate. According to a survey two years later, the village's population consisted of 520 Christians.[4]

Until 1970, the official Albanian name for the village was Bezmisht;[5] it then became Kallamas. In 2013, the official name was changed back to Tuminec.[6]

Demographics

According to Yugoslav sources from 1981, the village was populated exclusively by Macedonians.[7]

A 2007 estimate put the village population around 950 to 1,000 residents.[8]

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.[9] 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.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Census Data". INSTAT. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  2. ↑ Sterjovski, Vasil. "ОТКРИЕНА НЕОЛИТСКА НАСЕЛБА КАЈ ТУМИНЕЦ, МАЛА ПРЕСПА" (in Macedonian). grid.mk. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  3. ↑ Penev, Boyan (2007). Scripta & E-scripta 5. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  4. ↑ D.M.Brancoff. "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne". Paris, 1905, p.170-171.
  5. ↑ 1970 renaming decision
  6. ↑ "Pas Pustecit, edhe 7 fshatra të Korçës me emertime maqedonase" (in Albanian). Info Arkiv. 17 April 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  7. ↑ Toso Popovski, Makedonsko nacionalno malcinstvo vo Grcija, Bugarija i Albanija, Makedonska Kniga, 1981, p 276.
  8. ↑ Бело, Раки. Селищни имена в Мала Преска - Албания, в: Македонски преглед, ХХХ, №3, стр.135.
  9. ↑ Angeličin-Žura, Goce. Пештерните цркви во Охридско-Преспанскиот регион (Р. Македонија, Р. Албанија, Р. Грција). Ниш: В: „Ниш и Византија IV: зборник радова“; Симпозиум „Ниш и Византија IV“, Зборник радова IV, Ниш, 3 - 5 юни 2005. p. 397. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  10. ↑ Sterjovski, Vasil (26 May 2010). "ФК Туминец победник на традиционалниот фудбалски турнир "ПРЕСПА" 2010". Makedonska Nacija (in Macedonian). Retrieved 4 May 2014.