| Pretor | |
| Native Name: | Претор |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | North Macedonia |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within North Macedonia |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Pelagonia |
| Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
| Population As Of: | 2002 |
| Population Total: | 142 |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Coordinates: | 40.9794°N 21.0617°W |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Area Code: | +389 |
| Blank Name: | Car plates |
| Blank Info: | RE |
Pretor (Macedonian: Претор) is a village in the Resen Municipality of North Macedonia, on the northeastern shore of Lake Prespa. It is over 13km (08miles) south of the municipal centre of Resen.[1]
Pretor's oldest church, St Sava, is dated from the 14th century.[2]
According to the statistics of Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov from 1900 the settlement is recorded as "Pretorče" and as having 138 inhabitants, all Bulgarian Exarchists.[3] Pretor has 142 inhabitants as of the most recent census of 2002.[4] The majority ethnic group in the village has been the Macedonians.[5]
| Ethnic group | census 1961 | census 1971 | census 1981 | census 1991 | census 1994 | census 2002 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
| Macedonians | 218 | 99.1 | 234 | 100 | 185 | 97.4 | 170 | 97.4 | 149 | 97.3 | 138 | 97.1 |
| others | 2 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.0 | 5 | 2.6 | 4 | 2.6 | 4 | 2.7 | 4 | 2.9 |
| Total | 220 | 234 | 190 | 174 | 153 | 142 | ||||||