[3] It is believed that when Sultan Mehmed II conquered Constantinople in 1453 and moved his capital there, he began to inhabit that city.

[3] According to the archeological excavations, the oldest tombs in the Jewish cemetery in Štip date from the 17th century, and from then until the 1940s they buried the dead in the same place.

[3] During World War II, with the deportation of the Macedonian Jews to the Treblinka extermination camp, the Jewish cemetery in Štip became devastated and demolished.

The Bulgarian soldiers in that period collected all the stone memorial plaques and took them to the spa near the village Kežovica, about two kilometers away from the town of Štip, and from them then built the base of the pool itself.

[4] On April 1, 2015, a memorandum for cooperation was signed between the Štip Municipality and the Ministry of Culture, with which in 2016 the protective wall of the cemetery was built and completed.