Podgorci, Struga

Podgorci (Macedonian: Подгорци, Albanian: Podgorcë) is a small village in the municipality of Struga, North Macedonia.

In 1900, Vasil Kanchov gathered and compiled statistics on demographics in the area and reported that the village of Podgorci was inhabited by about 600 Bulgarian Christians and 550 Bulgarian Muslims.

[2] The "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne" survey by Dimitar Mishev (D. Brankov) concluded that the Christian part of the local population in 1905 was composed of 288 Exarchist Bulgarians and 352 Patriarchist Bulgarians.

There were Bulgarian and Serbian schools in the beginning of 20th century[3] According to the 1943 Albanian census, Podgorci was inhabited by 700 Muslim Albanians, 563 Orthodox Macedonians and 30 Orthodox Aromanians.

[4] Podgorci has been inhabited by Orthodox Christian Macedonians and a Torbeš population.