Creà ¡evo or Creshevo () is a village in Gazi Baba Municipality of North Macedonia.
Creà ¡evo is located in the northeast of Skopje, 15 km from the center of Skopje, capital city of Republic of North Macedonia.
It is located at the foothills of Skopska Crna Gora. In the east of Creà ¡evo is the village of StraÃÂinci, in the northeast there is the village of ViniÃÂe, and BulaÃÂani is located in the northwest, Smilkovci is in the southwest and Stajkovci is located in the south of the village of Creà ¡evo.
Creà ¡evo is an old village located at the foot of Mount Skopska Crna Gora. The date of the origin of the village is not known, but It is thought that even during the Roman Empire there was a settlement which was located 3 km from the village named as Elenovo.
The earliest documented trace is found in literature about King Stefan Milutin as early as, 1300 and published 1905 in áÃÂÿÃÂúø ÃÂÃÂýþóÃÂðÃÂÃÂúø ÃÂñþÃÂýøú.
There are documents which mention Creà ¡evo in the Ottoman Empire in the documents of Mustafa Pasha who was rewarded for his loyalty to the Sultan Bayezid II.
According to the 1467-68 Ottoman defter, Creà ¡evo (ÃÂarrashevo) exhibits a mixed Orthodox Christian Slavic-Albanian anthroponomy. Some families had a mixed Slav-Albanian names, usually a Slavic first name and an Albanian last name or last names with Albanian patronyms and Slavic suffixes.
The names are: Ber-ko son of Ugrin, Stepan son of Cakravel, Pejo son of Lesh-iç, Niko son of Koja, Niko son of Lesha, David, poor (siromah), Dral his son, Dila, poor (siromah), Dimitri his son, Tom-ka the son of Marin, Nikola his brother, Rada the son of Ugrin, Boja the son of Kola, Nikola the son of Niko, Niko the son of Peshko, Koja his son, Kostadini the son of Berisal, Rajçin the son of Berisal, Petko Peshka, Koja, his son, Boja and his son Martin, Rapçin and his son Berisal, Kostadin and his son Berisal.
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: BulaÃÂani, Batinci, Raà ¡tak and Creà ¡evo. 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 Creà ¡evo are: Breaks Dool found necropolis from Roman times. Selishte, isolated finding from Roman times. Smilkovci a settlement from Roman times.
According to the last census of the population of Macedonia since 2021, the village has 982 inhabitants. Below is a table on the national structure of the population
In the village of Creà ¡evo there is a middle school satellite school "Naum Ohridski", while the center is in the village of BulaÃÂani.
There are three churches in the village of Creà ¡evo, one of which was an old monastery.
Every year the cultural manifestation "Revue of folk costumes, instruments and songs of Creà ¡evo" is held, where numerous cultural artists, as well as costumes from different parts of our country, are represented.