Kruševo

Kruševo (Macedonian: Крушево;[ˈkruʃevo], Aromanian: Crushuva) is a town in Macedonia. It is the highest town in Macedonia, situated at an altitude of over 4,429 feet (1350 m) above sea level. The town of Kruševo is the seat of Kruševo Municipality.

Name

The name of the town in other languages is:

History

Medieval

Part of the Byzantine Empire. The area was temporarily annexed by the First Bulgarian Empire in the 9th century to be conquered again by the Byzantium. The region came shortly under the rule of the short-lived Principality of Prilep of Prince Marko (r. 1371 - 1395), a successor state of the Serbian Empire (1346–1371) where the father of Župan Vukašin Mrnjavčević (co-ruler of King Stefan Uroš V) held the region. The principality and region came under Ottoman Turkish rule in 1395.

Ottoman rule

Kruševo, Foča

Kruševo (Serbian Cyrillic: Крушево) is a village in the municipality of Foča, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Coordinates: 43°23′20″N 18°41′14″E / 43.38889°N 18.68722°E / 43.38889; 18.68722

Kruševo (Brestovac)

Kruševo is an uninhabited settlement in Croatia.

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