Caska (Чашка, Chashka) - village and seat of the eponymous Municipality of Caska on the right side of the river Topolka, near the town of Veles. Caska is a flat village and lies at an altitude of 240 meters, on the right side of the river Topolka. It is 13 km away from the city of Veles and is a railway station on the railway Veles - Prilep - Bitola.
Čaška is a flatland village and lies at an altitude of 240 meters, on the right side of the Topolka river. It is 13 kilometers away from the city of Veles and is a railway station on the Veles - Prilep - Bitola railway.
The development of Caska begins at the time of the
construction of the railway Veles - Prilep - Bitola in the thirties
of the twentieth century.
The village developed more after
the Second World War, when due to its specific location and
proximity to the city of Veles, a large number of inhabitants from
the surrounding villages settled there. During the sixties and
seventies of the twentieth century in the village were built most of
the infrastructural and commercial buildings.
The village has an eight-year primary school, a church, a post
office, an outpatient clinic, and a veterinary station. There is
also a monument dedicated to NOB.
Churches
Church "St.
Kliment Ohridski" - Chaska
"Saint Kliment Ohridsky" in the
village of Chashka in Veles is a new church, the first stone of
which was consecrated and laid on December 8, 1990 by the then
Metropolitan of Povardarsky. Michael. It was consecrated on May 13,
2001 by the then Metropolitan of Povardar, and now retired Jovan
Vranishkovsky. It was photographed by Lazar Lekic and Dragan Ristic.
Archaeological sites
Vrhvi
Vrkhvi is an archaeological monument
of early Christian burials in the immediate vicinity of the Chaska
settlement.
Location
The site is located in cultivated fields
immediately north of the village of Chaska in the village of Vrtsvi,
which is located at the foot of a hill high above the gorge on the left
bank of the Topolka. The very place of early Christian burials in the
Vrchvi area is located across the small stream Mala Reka in the middle,
surrounded by the settlement of the Neolithic settlement in the Mramorye
area from the west, a prehistoric Eneolithic tomb right at the top of
the hill from the east and a Roman tomb - mound immediately to the
north. Taking into account that in the immediate vicinity there are as
many as three archaeological sites of tombs of different times, along
the entire length of the Mala Reka stream, and on the opposite bank
there are archaeological sites of settlements, we can conclude that in
ancient times this stream had a symbolic meaning of the border and
transition between life and death.
Discoveries
Two separate
groups of graves connected to each other were found in the parking lot.
One group includes three connected graves in the east-west direction,
and the other in the immediate vicinity has two graves with the opposite
north-south direction. The tombs are completely surrounded by stone and
plaster inside, which indicates a fairly good workmanship. However, they
do not have such rich and luxurious interior decoration as the nearby
cemetery - the Chereon mausoleum in Sulinar, which indicates that poorer
people, middle-class citizens, were probably buried here. Decor
accessories were found in these 5 graves, as well as a votive tablet
depicting Hecate among the Dioscuri, which is kept in the Museum of
Macedonia in Skopje.
Kapinovo-Konyarnik - a settlement of Roman
times
Marmorie
Mramorye is an archaeological monument in the
village of Chashka, Velessky district. The site is a Neolithic
settlement. Located 300 m southwest of the village on the left bank of
the Topolka River, on both sides of the road to Otishtino, on an area of
about 300 × 50 m, fragments of molded ceramic vessels, as well as
stones, were found tools made of flint. In 1990/91, special excavations
were carried out, during which a multi-layered settlement of the Middle
Neolithic (Anzabegovo-Vrsnik IV) and Late Neolithic (Zelenikovo II) was
discovered.
Srecelo
Sretselo is an archaeological monument in
the village of Chashka, Velessky district. It is a medieval necropolis.
In the immediate vicinity of the school and the old municipal building,
pre-World War II construction work unearthed graves with an east-west
oriented stone slab structure. The Archaeological Museum in Skopje
carried out protective excavations, during which grave goods were found
in 5 graves - decor items.
Sulinar
Sulinar is an
archaeological monument in the village of Chashka, Velessky district.
The site represents a settlement from Roman times. 200 meters to the
north, on the right side of the railway to Veles, on a gentle slope
descending to the Topolka River, on an area of 1.5 hectares, a large
number of fragments of ceramic vessels and a lot of building material
were found. In the middle part of this cemetery, round buildings with a
base diameter of about 14-15 meters are noticeable. A grave stele with
an inscription and a relief was found here. Stored in the National
Museum in Veles.
Hereon
Hereon or Heroon — a tomb - mausoleum
from Roman times discovered at the archaeological site of the Sulinar
settlement from the same period, in the immediate vicinity of the Chaska
settlement.
Location
The site lies 200 meters north of the
village on the right side of the railway line to Veles, on a gentle
slope that descends towards the Topolka river. The approach is very
favorable, because only fifty meters away are the last newly built
houses, which lead to the asphalted street "Aco Shopov", and right next
to the excavations there is a cart road, because they are located in
cultivated fields with tobacco and vineyards. On an area of 1.5
hectares, a large number of pieces and parts (fragments) of ceramic
vessels and a lot of construction material are found.
Inventions
In the central part of this site you can see the walls of a building
with a circular base and a diameter of 14-15 meters. A stele with an
ancient Greek inscription and relief was also found here, which is kept
in the folk museum in Veles. The mausoleum, the only such object in
Macedonia, found in the Sulinar-Chaska deposit, is made up of a complex
of seven graves. Based on the fragments of the architectural decoration,
it can be assumed that the mausoleum is from the 5th century. The
monumentality of the building indicates that it was the property of a
local ruler. Mosaics with drawings of geometric shapes were found on the
floors, while on the walls around the burial places there are drawings
that come from the later medieval period.
Description
The tomb
- Hereon mausoleum is built of marble blocks on the supporting structure
and walls of crushed stone and ceramics connected with lime and mortar,
while the vaults are entirely built of tiles - teguli. The tomb is
entered through several stairs that through an underground door enter
the main part in which there are 3 burial places - beds. The burial
chambers are specially made with drainage channels in a slope, through
which all the liquid from the decomposition of the embalmed bodies of
the deceased flowed out. On the walls next to the three burial places -
chambers, there are recesses made so that fire can be placed in them for
lighting. In the left and right corners near the entrance from the
inside, there are openings of two small corridors - tunnels, through
which gifts, food and sacrifices for the buried deceased were brought
down. Based on the rich workmanship and numerous rare artifacts found
such as ornate jewelry, archaeologists assume that an important and
powerful Roman dignitary or commander with his family was buried in this
tomb.
Tulana
Tulana — an archaeological site in the village of
Čaška in the Veles region. The site is a necropolis from Roman times.
300 meters west of the railway station, during the digging of clay,
several graves were found that were completely destroyed. A votive
plaque with a representation of Hecate between the dioscuri was found
here. It is located and kept in the Museum of Macedonia in Skopje.
Qeramidnica
Qeramidnica - Crna Krusha — an archaeological site
in the village of Čaška in Veles. The site represents a necropolis from
late antiquity. Remains of a smaller building were found 1 km south of
the railway station, on the right side of Topolka. A life-size, headless
marble statue of a man was also found. Remains of several buildings can
be found around this building. The site was completely destroyed by
digging clay for the manufacture of ceramic products of the "Kiro
Kyuchuk" factory. On the other side of the Topolka river, in the
immediate vicinity of the locality, during the construction of
greenhouses, graves were discovered that were completely destroyed. The
finds are kept in the Museum of Macedonia in Skopje.
Starting from November 2007 The municipality of Chaska has started
with the registration of immovable property. This activity began with
the constitution of commissions for determining the market value of real
estate and training of the members of the commissions to use the
methodology for determining the market value, which was held in Skopje.
The training was conducted by ZFRLSJP and expert lecturers as well as
the creator of the Methodology for determining the market value of real
estate, Mr. Vase Donevski.
With the implementation of the UNDP
project "Intermunicipal partnerships for efficient delivery of services"
in cooperation with the Ministry of Local Self-Government, the
Municipality of Čaška received a database for taxpayers. At the same
time, a new registration of the entire property in its territory was
carried out and with that an increase in the tax capacity of the
Municipality of Chaska was achieved.
Therefore, with this aim of
implementing the activity, the data contained in the database that was
taken over by the Public Revenue Administration was updated and a real
picture of all taxpayers and properties in the mentioned territory made
up of the former municipalities of Izvor, Bogomila and Gorno was
obtained. and Dolno Jabolcishte.
The municipality of Čaška has 42
settlements, previously some of them were not registered as taxpayers,
that is, they were exempted by law. For the completion of the records of
the debtors and properties, a registration commission is formed in the
summer period when many of the properties and taxpayers are present so
that they can be registered and recorded, thus the final phase of the
project was in October 2008. After completing the records of the bonds
and properties and their assessment, the updating of the database was
started, which the Municipality of Chaska had taken over from the IRS.
The previous situation numbered about 1000 taxpayers, and with the
undertaken activity, the number increased to about 3200 taxpayers.
The new updated database was put into operation for the preparation
of regular solutions for 2008, with the help of the inter-municipal
cooperation with the Municipality of Veles. The entire activity was
financially supported by UNDP and aims to promote inter-municipal
cooperation as an effective approach in the delivery of public services.
Property tax decisions are already distributed by the presidents of
local communities of the Municipality of Čaška. The amount of the Budget
as well as the success of the activities for the development of the
Municipality of Chaska in the coming period will depend on the readiness
of the citizens to meet their obligations as taxpayers to help in the
realization of strategic plans and projects.
Čaška is an economically very active village. Mainly the village has an agricultural function due to its location (alluvial plain of the Topolka river). Wheat, corn, barley, tobacco, beans, cabbage, tomatoes and other vegetable crops are mostly cultivated. Animal husbandry is represented to a lesser extent, especially the breeding of sheep and cows.
According to the statistics of Vasil K'nchov ("Macedonia. Ethnography
and Statistics") from 1900, 262 inhabitants lived in Chaska, all
Macedonians.
According to the exarchate secretary Dimitar Mishev,
("La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne") in 1905 there were 120
Macedonians in Chaska, under the supremacy of the Bulgarian exarchate.
The village counted 561 inhabitants in 1961, while in 1994 the
number increased to 1,346 inhabitants.
According to the last
population census of Macedonia from 2002, the village has 1,471
inhabitants, of which 1,425 are Macedonians, 44 are Serbs and 2 others.