 The cemetery is the oldest Jewish cemetery in North Macedonia, if not in the Balkans overall.Relations between the Jews and the local non-Jewish population were generally good.Confirmation of good conditions for Jews in North Macedonia (and the broader Macedonian region) and Ottoman Europe in general comes from a 15th-century letter from the Macedonian Jew, Isaac Jarfati, sent to German and Hungarian Jews advising them of the favorable conditions in the Ottoman Empire, and encouraging them to immigrate to the Balkans.