| Type: | v |
| Official Name: | Tuminec |
| Other Name: | Bezmisht Kallamas Туминец |
| County: | Korçë |
| Municipality: | Pustec |
| Municunit: | Pustec |
| Coordinates: | 40.8994°N 20.9392°W |
| Population As Of: | 2000 |
| Population Total: | 658 |
Tuminec (Albanian: Tuminec, formally Bezmisht and Kallamas; Macedonian[1] Туминец is a village just north of the Albanian portion of Lake Prespa in the Pustec Municipality of the Korçë County.[2] [3] The villages of Konjsko and Stenje are opposite the Albania-North Macedonia border from Tuminec.
According to archaeological evidence found in 2011, the Tuminec area was inhabited during Neolithic times.[4]
The nearby Church of the Holy Mother of God, a rock church, was built in the 14th century.[5] The village was mentioned in the Slepche Beadroll from the end of XVI century.[6]
In 1900, Vasil Kanchov gathered and compiled statistics on demographics in the area and reported that the village of Tumanets (Туманецъ) was inhabited by about 360 Bulgarian Christians.[7] Following the Ilinden Uprising of 1903, Tuminec came under the Bulgarian Exarchate. According to a Bulgarian survey two years later, the village's population consisted of 520 Christian Bulgarians.[8]
Until 1970, the official Albanian name for the village was Bezmisht;[9] it then became Kallamas. In 2013, the official name was changed back to Tuminec.[10]
According to Yugoslav sources from 1981, the village was populated exclusively by Macedonians.[11]
A 2007 Bulgarian estimate made by a researcher from Albania put the village population around 950 to 1,000 residents and describes the inhabitants of the whole region of Mala Prespa as Bulgarians.[12]
Tuminec is the nearest village to the Orthodox Church of the Holy Mother of God, situated on a rocky ridge about 10 meters from the Macedonian border. Some of the older paintings in the church date from the 18th century.[13] It is also home to the Church of St Demetrius.
Tuminec has a football club, FK Tuminec, that competes with other villages in the Prespa area of Pustec.[14]