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Creshevo is a village in the Municipality of Gazi Baba, in the vicinity of the city of Skopje.

Geography and location
Creshevo is located in the northeast of Skopje, 15 km from the center of Skopje. It is located at the foothills of Skopska Crna Gora. In the east of Creshevo is the village of Strachinci, in the northeast there is the village of Vinice, and Bulachani  is located in the northwest, Smilkovci is in the southwest and Stajkovci is located in the south of the village of Cresevo.

History
Creshevo (Црешево) is an old village located at the foothills of Mount Skopska Crna Gora. Date of the the origin of the village is not known, but much older that 11th AD since that is when the First Orthodox church was built in the middle of the village ,across the river Servina. .. The earliest documented trace its found in King Stefan Milutin as early as, 1300 in published 1905 in Српски Етнографски Зборник.

It is thought that even during the Roman Empire there was a settlement which was located 3 km from the village and which is mentioned as Elenovo. The creation of the village there are many stories and legends. A legend is this: in the old Turkish village lived an old woman who had a five-year old grandson named Stoyan. Stoyan, from the earliest age was orphan and had only his grandmother. When the Turkish army came and everywhere to pay in blood and came with her grandmother and asked the little Stojan grandmother begged them not cursed her take her because he alone remained. Turkish army like to joke with the old woman told her grandmother creshnata you see in the yard which barely had one branch, If you want to save your nephew for a week when we go to the creshnata have even one zdrela cherries. The old woman to curse the demon that if they did that to spare small Stojan. Turks agreed and went away. The old woman is tuvkala and finally she thought of what to do. Pregnene the horse and went as the bottle where more time was known that the bottle had the earliest cherries remove market. He broke a branch of which there were a dozen cherries and returned home. Took the branch, it tied the existing cherry and waiting to come to Turkey. When they arrived they were surprised when they came nearer they saw that the old woman dreck you played them very angry old woman to bring the jams had tortured, beat her to confess the sight of small Stojan. It does not afford under any pressure, just to save his nephew. Time speaking, there are documents on the existence of Creshevo of the Ottoman Empire, Serbian / Montenegrin literature.

Creshevo is described as border village of the Montenegrin kingdom, but not part of it. Serbian ethnographic collection [1]

There are documents which mention Creshevo still in the Ottoman Empire in the documents of Mustafa Pasha who was rewarded for his loyalty to the Sultan Bayezid II.

Mustafa Pasha was vizier of Sultan Bayezid II (1481-1512) and Selim I (1512-1520) and held various public offices in the Ottoman Empire. He owned a large estate in Rumelia and four villages near Skopje: Bulachani, Batinci , Rastak and Creshevo. He was the son of Abdullah (Abdulkerim), he had two wives, both named Khurshid and four daughters Hani Umi Shah Zeman and Huma.

Significant archaeological sites in the area of ​​Creshevo are:
 * Breaks Dool found necropolis from Roman times.
 * Selishte, isolated finding from Roman times.
 * Smiljkovci a settlement from Roman times.

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