Kuruşova

Kruševo
Kruševo downtown with Pelagonia in the background
Flag Coat of arms
Kruševo Location within Macedonia
Coordinates: 41°22′N 21°14′E / 41.367°N 21.233°E / 41.367; 21.233Coordinates: 41°22′N 21°14′E / 41.367°N 21.233°E / 41.367; 21.233
Country	Macedonia
Municipality	Kruševo Municipality
Government
• Mayor	Gjorgi Damcheski (VMRO-DPMNE)
Elevation	1,350 m (4,430 ft)
Population ()
• Total	5,330
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	7550
Area code(s)	+389/48/47X-XXX
Car plates	BT-001-U?/BT-0000-U?
Climate	Cfb

Kruševo (Macedonian: Крушево;[ˈkruʃevo] ( listen), Aromanian: Crușuva) 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.

The name of the town in other languages is:

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.

A large part of the Macedonian population in Kruševo originate from Lazaropole and descend from Mijaks, a Macedonian sub-group who settled in the town alongside the Aromanians by the middle of the nineteenth century. Aromanians settled in Kruševo in addition to Orthodox Albanian refugees often in groups of families and led by a priest fleeing the 18th century socio-political and economic crises in what is now southern Albania. Orthodox Albanians arrived from Vithkuq and the Opar region while local Kruševo traditions also relate that other families arrived from Korçë and the villages of Polenë, Dardhë, and Mborje.