Velušina

Velušina (Macedonian: Велушина, Albanian: Vellushinë) is a village in the municipality of Bitola, North Macedonia.

[1] It is a similar situation to Veljusa's (Вељуса), near Strumica, where the church of the Most-Holy Merciful Theotokos is located.

The church of the Merciful Theotokos in Velušina is dedicated to the Dormition of the Mother of God, it is a paleochristian basilica built on the 4th-5th century, during the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II.

[2] In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Velušina was inhabited by 920 Christian Bulgarians.

[3] In 1905 in statistics gathered by Dimitar Mishev Brancoff, Velušina was inhabited by 880 “Grecomans” who followed the Bulgarian Patriarchate and had a Greek school with 20 students.