Prespa

Prespa (Macedonian: Преспа, Greek: Πρέσπα) is a region shared between North Macedonia, Greece and Albania.

In today's borders, the region is divided between three countries, which is result of the division of the Ottoman territories of Europe after the two Balkan Wars.

[2] The Slavs skipped the region that had been already plundered and depopulated, but continued south to the Mediterranean coast.

During the year 1888, in the village of German, in Lower Prespa, the headstone of Samuel's parents was found, his father Nicholas, his mother Ripsimia and his brother David, dating from 993.

It is currently located in the National Archaeological Museum in Sofia, Bulgaria, most probably portrayed in the wake of the wars.

2009 topographic map of the Prespa region
Woman from Jankovec in folk costume, Upper Prespa, beginning of 20th century.