Tuminec
Bezmisht Kallamas Туминец | |
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Coordinates: 40°53′58″N 20°56′21″E / 40.89944°N 20.93917°E | |
Country | Albania |
County | Korçë |
Municipality | Pustec |
Municipal unit | Pustec |
Population (2000) | |
• Total | 658 |
Time zone | UTC+1 ( CET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+2 ( CEST) |
Tuminec ( Albanian: Tuminec, formally Bezmisht and Kallamas; Macedonian [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.
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]
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]
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]