Berovo is a small city near the Maleševo mountains, 161 km far away from Skopje, 47 km from Strumica and 52km from Kočani, in the Republic of Macedonia. Sustained by the Bregalnica river, Berovo stands at 830-900 meters above sea level and can only be reached by car, because there is only a single asphalt road leading to the city. Berovo lake and the forest of the Malsevo Mountains are two popular sites for tourists and Berovo craftsmen are well known for their skill in traditional wood crafting. Berovo cheese is also a well-known comodity. Skopje (Macedonian¤: Скопје; Albanian: Shkup; Greek: Σκόπια, Skópia; Latin: Scupi; Serbian: Скопље, Skoplje; Turkish: Ãœsküb) is the capital city of the Republic of Macedonia¤. It has approx. ... The huge equestrian statue of Alexander the Great, king of ancient Macedon, on the waterfront at Thessaloniki, capital of Greek Macedonia Macedonia is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan peninsula in south-eastern Europe with an area of about 67,000 square kilometres and a population of 4...

Monastery of the Holy Archangel Michael

The first monastery in Berovo was built between 1815 until it was consecrated in 1818. Macedonian Christian enlightener Joachim Krcovski was among those present at the consecration. Historical data concerning the construction of the church and the monastery is faulty, but it is known that circumstances were very difficult. 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1818 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...

In the early 19th century Berovo was a rural settlement with around two hundred houses and one small church that had fallen into decay. The inhabitants at the time decided to have a new church built at the site known as Mogila. The parish priest, Friar Peco, was assigned to obtain a building permit from the Turkish authorities in Radoviš. The Turkish governor Vali gave a building permit but made sure conditions for construction of the church as difficult as possible. The church was to be built low, below the road level and not to be seen, construction was to end in forty days, and Fr Peco was to give his youngest daughter, Sultana, to the harem. The people of the town prevailed and the church building was finished and covered with stone blocks, soot, and lime (so as not to be noticed) in 40 days. Seeing that the church had been completed, Vali immediately ordered the deaths of three church elders in front of the church, and since Sultana had fled to Kyustendil, Friar Peco was imprisoned for three years. When Sultana found out that Vali had been murdered by komitas fighters for Macedonian liberation, she promptly returned to Berovo. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... A tomb is a small building (or vault) for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. ... In traditional Arab culture, the harîm حريم (cf. ... Komitas monument in Yerevan Soghomon Gevorki Soghomonyan - Komitas Vardapet (Սողոմոն Գևորքի Սողոմոնյան - Կոմիտաս Վարդապետ in Armenian), by Western Armenian transliteration also Gomidas Vartabed, born on September 26 or October 8 (see discussion) 1869 in Kütahya, Turkey, died on October 22, 1935 in Paris, France, was an Armenian priest, composer of...

Female Monastery

The first female monastery, located at the exit from Berovo leading to the dam and the lake, was built in 1940 in a 19th century architectural opus, twenty years after the construction of the Monastery of the Holy Archangel Michael, and the first nuns were the daughter-in-law and the daughter of Friar Risto, a son-in-law of Friar Peco. They had their monastic tonsure (removal of the hair of the head) with a blessing from the Rila Monastery's abbott. Eugenia I was the first abbess of the monastery, the second – Eugenia II, the third – Eugenia III, and the fourth abbess was Eulampia in 1958 by the first Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia, His Beatitude Dositheus. At its peak, in the first half of the twentieth century, the monastery numbered up to sixty nuns, with a rich and developed economy, a theological seminary, a weaving mill, and the first single-phase hydro-power plant in this area was in the monastery. 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Rila Monastery (Bulgarian Рилски Манастир, Rilski Manastir) was founded in the 10th century by St John of Rila, a hermit canonized by the Orthodox Church. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ohrid (Macedonian: Охрид, Greek: Οχριδα, Albanian: Ohër) is a city on the eastern shore of Lake Ohrid in western Macedonia. ...

The three gates of the church face the town, the river and the pine forest. A large porch dominates the monastery yard and in the dimness of its interior oil lamps lighten images of saints, painted in a characteristic style that is antonymic to Byzantine canons. Only one icon, that of the Holy Prophet Noah, painted by George Veljanov from Strumica in 1818. From 1897 to 1920 the painter Gavril Atanasov-Macedonian also worked in the monastery. The icon of the Dormition of the Theotokos was painted by Gregory Pecanov from Strumica in 1878. The residential quarters are of a free-style construction. They attract with the warmth of the wood used, shaped in a 19th century old-urban style. Byzantium was the original name of the modern city of Istanbul. ... The Savior Not Made By Hands (1410s, by Andrei Rublev) An icon (from Greek εικων, eikon, image) is an image, picture, or representation; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it, or by analogy, as in semiotics; in computers an icon is a... Noah or Nóach (Rest, Standard Hebrew נוֹחַ Nóaḥ, Tiberian Hebrew נֹחַ Nōªḥ; Arabic نوح Nūḥ), is a character from the Book of Genesis and the Quran who builds an ark to save his family and the worlds animals from the Deluge, the universal flood. ... 1818 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... Gavril Atanasov Macedonian is a famous macedonian ikon painter from Berovo (Malesh region). ... The Dormition of the Theotokos is the Eastern Orthodox commemoration of the death of Mary, the mother of Jesus. ... 1878 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

Four sisters who came from the Veljusa monastery live together with the last nun of the previous lineage. The sisterhood of the monastery is active in Byzantine style icon painting. The beginnings of the renewal of fresco painting in Macedonian monasteries was started by the sisterhood.

The Hesychastic (14th century Greek sect of Christianity) monastery typikon functions as a place of prayer, a holy hesychasterion. The upper floor of the church was recently turned into a small chapel dedicated to St. Gregory Palamas. Hesychasts ($1v(acrai or ilaux4ovres, from avxos, quiet, also called &ﾵc/mMﾑlivxoe, Umbilicanimi, and sometimes referred to as Euchites, Massalians or Palamites), a quietistic sect which arose, during the later period of the Byzantine empire, among the monks of the Greek church, especially at Mount Athos, then at the... (13th century - 14th century - 15th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 14th century was that century which lasted from 1301 to 1400. ...

External Links

• Official Berovo Website
• Popova Shapka