Village Bitushe – Peak Golem Krchin

Bitushe – a village in Mavrovo and Rostushe Municipality, in the area of ​​Dolna Reka, in the vicinity of the town of Debar. This very interesting village, according to its location and development, is located in the area of ​​Dolna Reka, in the southwestern part of the territory of the Municipality of Mavrovo and Rostuse, whose atar rises on the eastern slope of Mount Deshat, where it touches the state border line with Albania. It is located in the canyon part of the Radika River, on its right side. The village is mountainous, located at an altitude of 954 meters.

In the immediate vicinity of the village, that is, on the left bank of the Radika river, there is also the famous Bigorski monastery. Bitushe with the neighboring villages of Rostuše, Velebrdo and Trebište has always represented a special region with its own specific features and characteristics.

According to some, a certain Jovan (or Ivan) as one of the 70 disciples of Kliment and Nahum was from Bitushan and that he was actually the founder of the Bigor monastery, i.e. that it was he who brought the icon of St. John from the burnt monastery of the same name near the village of Slatino , Debrca, which was again burned at the beginning of the 10th century. Bitushe is the only one among the 23 villages on the right side of Radika, located along the branches of Korab and Deshat, in which the population was not Islamized. It has existed for centuries as a purely Christian village and it is not known for what reason, the Ottoman authorities did not invade the village. However, for centuries the village lived in brotherly harmony with the rest of the inhabitants of this region

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