Podbrege () is a village in the municipality of Jegunovce, North Macedonia.
History Podbrege is attested in the 1467/68 Ottoman tax registry (defter) for the Nahiyah of Kalkandelen. The village had a total of 60 Christian households, 5 bachelors and 6 widows.Турски документи за историјата на македонскиот народ кн.4, Методија Соколоски, д-р Александар Стојановски, Скопје 1971
A toponym in the village bears the name Arbina, stemming from Arban, the old South Slavic ethnoynm for Albanians, suggesting direct linguistic contact with Albanians or the former presence of an assimilated Albanian community.
Demographics As of the 2021 census, Podbrege had 199 residents with the following ethnic composition:Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021 Macedonians 171 Roma 11 Serbs 10 Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 7
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 179 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 108.
Macedonians 161 Serbs 1 Romani 16 Others 1
In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Podbrege (Podorche) was inhabited by 140 Christian Bulgarians.Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 211.
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