Tresonče is a mountainous village located in the Mavrovo and Rostuša Municipality in western North Macedonia. It is a mountain village populated by Macedonian Orthodox Christians. There are also several Orthodox churches in the village.

History

The village is known to exist since 1467 (registered in an Ottoman book). The inhabitants of the village are called Mijaks.

Demographics

According to the statistics of the Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov from 1900, 1320 inhabitants lived in the village of Tresonče, all Bulgarians. According to the Secretary of the Bulgarian Exarchate Dimitar Mišev ("La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne"), in 1905 there were 1680 Bulgarians (exarchists) in Tresonče. According to a 1929 ethnographic map by Russian Slavist Afanasy Selishchev, Tresonče was a Bulgarian village. According to the 1942 Albanian census, Tresonče was inhabited by 454 Bulgarians. The village is traditionally inhabited by the ethnographic group of Mijaks, the inhabitants identifying as ethnic Macedonians (as of the 2021 census; 24 inhabitants).

Notable people