Resen

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Resen
Ресен
Resen coat of arms
Resen (North Macedonia)
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Basic data
Region : Pelagonia
Municipality : Resen
Coordinates : 41 ° 5 '  N , 21 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 41 ° 5 '20 "  N , 21 ° 0' 44"  E
Height : 885  m. i. J.
Area (Opština) : 550.77  km²
Residents : 8,748 (2002)
Inhabitants (Opština) : 16,825 (2002)
Population density : 31 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code : (+389) 086
Postal code : 7310
License plate : RE (since 2013)
Structure and administration
Mayor : Gjoko Strezovski ( VMRO-DPMNE )
Website :

Resen ( Macedonian Ресен ) is a city and an Opština in southwestern North Macedonia in the Pelagonia region . The Great Prespa Lake is ten kilometers south.

geography

Resen is located on the northern edge of an approximately 100 km² plateau that connects to the north of the Great Prespa Lake. The Galičica rises to the west of the plain - and the Baba Mountains to the east .

population

In addition to the town itself, the Resen Opština also includes other localities in the area. It has 16,825 inhabitants (2002). Ethnically , the Macedonians are in the majority with 76.07% of the population. The minorities include the Turks with 10.68% and the Albanians with 9.13%. The Roma are a rather small minority with 1.1% of the population. There are also other ethnic groups that together make up 3.03% of the community's population.

Religiously , people are divided into Orthodox Christianity and Islam . Macedonians mainly belong to the former and the Turks and Albanians to the latter.

An average of 3.47 people live in one household in the Opština. The population is quite young: 25.16% are younger than 20 years old.

history

The neoclassical castle by Ahmet Niyazi Bey from the 19th / 20th centuries. century

Milestones and other archaeological finds from Roman times point to an earlier settlement of the city and the surrounding area . In antiquity there was a Roman station of the Roman State Post on the strategically important Roman road Via Egnatia .

At the end of the 8th century Resen came under the rule of the First Bulgarian Empire . After the battle of Kleidion some blind surviving soldiers settled in the area, which is why it was called Asamati ("settlement of the one-eyed") by the Byzantines .

At the end of the 14th century Resen came under Ottoman rule. The first school was built in 1866. On August 15, 1894, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church was consecrated, which was also built with funds from the population of the neighboring cities of Bitola , Prilep , Kruševo , Ohrid and Struga . During these celebrations the Bulgarian Macedonia-Adrianople Revolutionary Committee (BMARK) was founded in the house of Christo Tatartschew, which fought for the liberation of the Bulgarian territories from the Ottomans.

In 1908 the Young Turkish Revolution started here under the leadership of Colonel Ahmet Niyazi Bey , which led to the overthrow of Sultan Abdülhamid II and the modernization of the empire. The neoclassical castle ( Turkish saray ) by Ahmet Niyazi Bey was built after the French castle Chenonceau at this time .

Culture

In the inhabited mostly by Albanians villages in the south of Opština, especially in Arvati , Asamati , Gorna Bela Crkva (Alb. Kisha e Bardhë e Siperme ) Grnari ( Gërnari ) and Krani , one is still toskischer dialect of Albanian spoken, which, together with the one on Lake Ohrid and in the regions of Bitola and Kruševo belongs to "North Tuscan" .

sons and daughters of the town

  • Mikhail Tatarschew (1864–1917), Bulgarian doctor, surgeon and revolutionary
  • Andrei Lyaptschew (1866–1933), Bulgarian politician and former Prime Minister of Bulgaria
  • Christo Tatarschew (1869–1952), Bulgarian revolutionary and founder of the BMARK
  • Ahmed Niyazi Bey (1873–1913), Ottoman officer in the Ottoman army and one of the Young Turkish leaders
  • Simeon Radew (1879–1967), Bulgarian writer, publicist and diplomat
  • Ali Aliu (* 1934), literary scholar and author

literature

  • Simeon Radew: Early Memories , 1967. The online version of the book is available here and here

Web links

Commons : Resen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Census of Macedonia 2002. State Statistical Office, accessed on January 13, 2013 (English, PDF file, 384 kB).
  2. ^ Simeon Radew: Early Memoirs, 1967.