Nidzhe Mountain

Nidzhe Mountain is located in the extreme southern part of the Republic of Macedonia. On the Macedonian territory, it occupies a total area of ​​689.4 km2, of which 357.4 km2 is above 1000 meters above sea level, 82.2 km2 above 1500 meters and only 10.8 km2 above 2000 meters above sea level. The state border between Macedonia and Greece runs through its crest. It stretches in a northeast-southwest direction with the highest peak Kajmakchalan (2521 m.a.s.l.), but the eponymous peak Nidzhe, 2361 meters high, also stands out. Its length is more than 20 kilometers in a straight line. To the west, Nidze borders the great Pelagonian basin. The north-western border and in general to the north of Selechka Mountain is separated by the Skochivir Gorge of Crna Reka after its big bend south of Selechka Mountain to the confluence of the Satoka River. From the estuary, the border turns right at more than 90 degrees and heads in a southeasterly direction to the confluence in Gradeshka Reka. Upstream from it, it reaches the springs, separating Nidze from the Kozjak mountain in the northeast, with which it morphologically connects. To the south of Nidzhe in the Aegean part of Macedonia is the Ostrovska (Eordejska) Basin. According to the direction of stretching, Nidzhe is a rare and unique mountain in Macedonia which, turning at an almost right angle of 90°, changes the direction of stretching, almost resembling a boomerang. From history, Mount Nidze is known for the fact that during the First World War, the famous Macedonian or Thessalonica front was located on its crest, on which it is located today on the Macedonian-Greek border. Nidzhe is the fifth highest mountain in the Republic of Macedonia.

The mountain ridge of Nidze in the northeast begins with the 1682-meter-high Kravica peak, continues to the 1635-meter-high Bela Zemja pass, from where it climbs to the 1822-meter-high Sokol peak. From there the ridge climbs to the highest peak Kajmakchalan (2521 m.a.s.l.) from where it changes direction to the west through the peaks Stefanec (1825 m.a.s.l.), Starkov Grob (1876 m.a.s.l.), Rogosh (1353 m.a.s.l.). m.), ending with the small Golash peak at an altitude of 774 meters above the village of Živojno in the Pelagonian Plain.

Source: Wikipedia