The village is located in the southern foothills of Belasitsa, near the tripoint with Bulgaria and North Macedonia.

[3] In the XIX century Shugovo is a village within the Demirhisar Kaza of the Sanjak of Serres in the Ottoman Empire.

In " Ethnography of the Provinces of Adrianople, Monastir and Thessaloniki ", published in Constantinople in 1878 and reflecting the statistics of the male population from 1873, Shugovo (Chougovo) is listed as a village with 250 households and 300 Muslims and 340 Bulgarians .

[4] In 1891 Georgi Strezov wrote: Shugovo, to Z. from Poroy [modern name of Ano Poroia] for about two hours.

[7] At the outbreak of the Balkan War in 1912, twenty-seven people from Shugovo volunteered for the Macedonian-Edirne militia.