During 19th century Rosna was a manor belonging to the Robev family of Ohrid and many workers according to the Austrian Johann Georg von Hahn in 1861 Rosen (or Rastna at the time) were Bulgarians.

Rossene was noted as a village with 45 households and 110 male Bulgarian inhabitants.

[5] A mosque in the village from the Ottoman period was turned into a small church dedicated to Saint George.

Since then, every summer musicians and dancers from all over Macedonia and abroad (including the Pan-Macedonian Association of United States) are gathered for three days in Sitaria, playing Music of Macedonia (Greece) and dancing.

[7][8] This government sponsored event was created to compete with a similar event[citation needed] held in the neighboring village of Meliti, which is organized every summer by the Slavic Macedonian minority.