 There were two Macedonian schools in the village in the beginning of 20th century.Subsequently, it was one of the first Slavic villages to revolt against the [[Ottoman Empire]] in the [[Ilinden Uprising]] of 1903, for which the Turkish army exacted heavy reprisals, killing many of the villagers and burning it to the ground.However a stand at the nearby [[Battle of Lokvata]] in which the villagers inflicted disproportionate casualties on a much larger Turkish force became a nationalist rallying point and served as the basis for a poem by [[Lazar Poptraykov]].