Pretor, Resen

Pretor Претор
Village
Pretor
Pretor Location within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 40°58′46″N 21°03′42″E
Country	North Macedonia
Region	Pelagonia
Municipality	Resen
Population  (2002)
• Total	142
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code	+389
Car plates	RE

Pretor (Macedonian: Претор) is a village in the Resen Municipality of North Macedonia, on the northeastern shore of Lake Prespa. It is over 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) south of the municipal centre of Resen.[1]

History

Pretor's oldest church, St Sava, is dated from the 14th century.[2]

Demographics

According to the statistics of Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov from 1900 the settlement is recorded as "Pretorče" and as having 138 inhabitants, all Bulgarian Exarchists.[3] Pretor has 142 inhabitants as of the most recent census of 2002.[4] The majority ethnic group in the village has been the Macedonians.[5]

Ethnic group	census 1961		census 1971		census 1981		census 1991		census 1994		census 2002
	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Macedonians	218	99.1	234	100	185	97.4	170	97.4	149	97.3	138	97.1
others	2	0.9	0	0.0	5	2.6	4	2.6	4	2.7	4	2.9
Total	220		234		190		174		153		142

Panorama of Pretor beach with the village in the distant centre-west and flanked by Lake Prespa to the centre-east and the Galičica mountains (east)

People from Pretor

• Pande Eftimov (1932 - 2017), poet and journalist[6]
• Pande Sudžov (1882 - 1927), member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization[7]

References

1. "Pretor". Retrieved 2 March 2014.
2. "Цркви". visitpelagonia.mk. Archived from the original on 3 October 2013. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
3. Vasil Kanchov. "Macedonia. "Ethnography and statistics." Sofia, 1900, p. 241
4. Municipality of Resen
5. Censuses of population 1948 - 2002 Archived 2013-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
6. Sotyanova, Virginia. Българи от близката чужбина Македония, Албания, Сърбия, Румъния, Молдова, Украйна, Университетско издателство „Св. Климент Охридски“, Sofia, 2005, стр.43
7. Mihaylov, Ivan. Спомени, т. IV, 1973, с. 139, Каспаров, Христо. Прв обид за портрет на преспанскиот револуционерен деец Панде Иванов Суджов (1882-1927). (2) - Крвавата драма одиграна на брегот на Преспанското Езеро, Македонско дело, година VII, број 349, 7.7.2000, с. 71.

40°58′N 21°03′E