Tuminec

Tuminec (Albanian: Tuminec, formally Bezmisht and Kallamas; Macedonian/Bulgarian:[1] Туминец) is a village just north of the Albanian portion of Lake Prespa in the Pustec Municipality of the Korçë County.[2][3] 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
County	Korçë
Municipality	Pustec
Municipal unit	Pustec
Population  (2000)
• Total	658
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

History

According to archaeological evidence found in 2011, the Tuminec area was inhabited during Neolithic times.[4]

The nearby Church of the Holy Mother of God, a rock church, was built in the 14th century.[5] The village was mentioned in the Slepche Beadroll from the end of XVI century.[6]

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.[7] 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.[8]

Until 1970, the official Albanian name for the village was Bezmisht;[9] it then became Kallamas. In 2013, the official name was changed back to Tuminec.[10]

Demographics

According to Yugoslav sources from 1981, the village was populated exclusively by Macedonians.[11]

A 2007 Bulgarian estimate made by a researcher from Albania put the village population around 950 to 1,000 residents and describes the inhabitants of the whole region of Mala Prespa as Bulgarians.[12]

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.[13] 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.[14]

References

1. Благой Шклифов, Трудове по българска диалектология. Том 11: Долно-преспанският говор, 1979, Издателство на БАН, стр. 161.
2. Law nr. 115/2014 Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
3. "Census Data". INSTAT. Archived from the original on 5 May 2014. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
4. Sterjovski, Vasil. "ОТКРИЕНА НЕОЛИТСКА НАСЕЛБА КАЈ ТУМИНЕЦ, МАЛА ПРЕСПА" (in Macedonian). grid.mk. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
5. Penev, Boyan (2007). Scripta & E-scripta. 5. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
6. Гергова, Иванка. Поменици от Македония в български сбирки, София, 2006, с. 74.
7. 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)
8. D.M.Brancoff. "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne". Paris, 1905, p.170-171.
9. 1970 renaming decision
10. "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.
11. Toso Popovski, Makedonsko nacionalno malcinstvo vo Grcija, Bugarija i Albanija, Makedonska Kniga, 1981, p 276.
12. Бело, Раки. Селищни имена в Мала Преспа - Албания, в: Македонски преглед, ХХХ, №3, стр. 130, 135.
13. 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.
14. Sterjovski, Vasil (26 May 2010). "ФК Туминец победник на традиционалниот фудбалски турнир "ПРЕСПА" 2010". Makedonska Nacija (in Macedonian). Retrieved 4 May 2014.