Krushevo – Peak Stara Musica

Krushevo (Vlach: Crushuva) – a town in the western part of the Republic of Macedonia, in the bosom of Busheva Mountain. It is the city of the former Krushevo Republic. Above the city is the famous monument Makedonium. At 1,220 meters above sea level, Krushevo is the only mountain town in Macedonia and the highest city in the Balkans. The city of Krushevo is the administrative seat of the municipality of the same name.

Krushevo lies on the western mountain edge of the Pelagonija Valley, in the source shallow valley part of the Krushevska River. This river divides the city into two parts: bigger on the left and smaller on the right. The houses in the city are placed amphitheatrically. Due to the specific morphoplasty, Krushevo is considered a typical mountain town, which has an average altitude of 1350 meters, so it is considered the highest town on the Balkan Peninsula. It is 25 km north of Demir Hisar, 32 km west of Prilep and 52.5 km north of Bitola.

Krushevo is first mentioned in historical sources from 1467, as mezra, ie. a village within the property of Hussein Bey. In the Slepce Codex, which was kept by the monks from 1544, the name Krushevo is mentioned, which refers to the current settlement. During the Turkish rule, Krushevo was a small Slavic-speaking village, and at the end of the XVIII century it belonged to Qerim Bey from Ohrid, to whom the population of Krushevo paid taxes until 1847.

Krushevo, as a developed and organized city settlement was created at the end of the XVIII century and the beginning of the XIX century. For the creation of Krushevo as a city settlement, the migration of the Vlachs from Moscopole and its surroundings from 1769 to 1788 and the founding of the Vlach Maalo is significant. At the beginning of the 19th century, in the period from 1812 to 1821, a second group of Vlachs immigrated, but now not from Moscopole, but from Mount Gramos. They founded a new neighborhood called Strunga. By occupation they were mainly cattle breeders and developed animal husbandry. At the same time, a group of Orthodox Albanians came to Krushevo from southern Albania and founded the Arnaut Maalo on the left and right of the Krushevska River. At the same time, a large number of Macedonian cattle breeders from the surrounding villages moved from the surrounding villages: Galichnik, Lazaropole, Tresonche, Gari and others. who founded the Mijak Maalo.

The Vlachs, known as successful builders, merchants, tenants, craftsmen and migrant workers, well organized their work in the new settlement, and the settlers Mijaci from the Reka region, widely known and successful builders, carvers, painters and icon painters, fit into the process of economic and cultural settlement development.

The economic growth had a positive impact on the urban community, so that in the first half of the XIX century, Krushevo acquired the character of an urban community. Until 1845, Krushevo was a farm run by the heirs of the beys Kerim and Rustem from Bitola, but in the same year several rich and respectable people from Krushevo collected about a thousand Turkish lira and bought the farm. According to the sale document, Muslim families were not allowed to settle in the city.

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