Resen (town)

Resen ( Macedonian Ресен ) is a city and a Opština in southwestern Macedonia in the region Pelagonia.

Geography

Resen is located in at the northern edge of an approximately 100 -acre plateau north of the Great Prespa joins. In the West, the level, the Galičica and in the east the Baba Mountains rise. The lake is about ten kilometers south of the city.

Population

The Opština Resen houses, besides the city still other villages in the area. It has 16,825 inhabitants ( 2002). Ethnically, the Macedonians with 76.07 % share of the population in the majority. The minorities include the Turks with 10.68 % and 9.13% with the Albanians. A rather small minority are the Roma with 1.1% share of the population. In addition, there are other ethnic groups, which together 3.03 % of the community residents.

Religiously, people communicate in the Orthodox Christianity and Islam. Macedonians belong especially the former, and the Turks and Albanians latter.

In a household living in the Opština average of 3.47 persons. The population is quite young: 25.16 % are younger than 20 years old.

History

In an earlier settlement of the town and surrounding area indicate milestones and other archaeological finds from the Roman period. In the ancient world was in place a Roman station of the Roman state post to the strategically important Roman road Via Egnatia.

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

The late 14th century came under Ottoman rule Resen. The first school was built in 1866. On August 15, 1894, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church was inaugurated, which was built with funds from the population of the neighboring towns of Bitola, Prilep, Krusevo, Struga Ohrid. During these celebrations, the Bulgarian Macedonia - Adrian Opeler Revolutionary Committee ( BMARK ) was established in the house of Christ Tatartschew who fought for the liberation of the Bulgarian lands of the Ottomans.

Started in 1908 under the direction of Colonel Ahmet Niyazi Bey the Young Turk Revolution, which led to the overthrow Sultan Abdülhamids II and the modernization of the empire. The neoclassical Castle ( Turkish saray ) of Ahmet Niyazi Bey is built in a French chateau Chenonceau at this time.

Culture

In the inhabited mainly by Albanians villages in the south of Opština, especially in Arvati, Asamati, Gorna Bela Crkva ( Alb. Kisha e Bardhë e Sipërme ) Grnari ( Gërnari ) and Krani, toskischer a dialect of Albanian is still spoken, which, together with the one next to the lake and in the regions of Bitola and Krusevo for " North Tosk " part.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Andrei Lyapchev (1866-1933), politician and former Prime Minister of Bulgaria
  • Christo Tatartschew (1869-1952), revolutionary and founder of the BMARK
  • Ahmed Niyazi Bey (1873-1913), an officer in the Ottoman Army and a leader of the Young Turk
  • Simeon Radev (1879-1967), writer, journalist and diplomat
  • Ali Aliu ( born 1934 ), literary scholar and author
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