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Osogovo Mountain is the splendor of the eastern Macedonia and a pure ecosystem containing the mountainous crystal waters, green forests, rocky ridges, lakes, deer, wild strawberries … The Osogovo region disposes with rich archaeological deposits, churches, monasteries, rural places with specific ethnology, folklore customs and recognizable rich traditional kitchen. Various valuable herbs, featuring ingredients hard to find and inexpensive, hand-picked on the high pastures that adorn the tops of the Osogovski mountains, on the border with Bulgaria, are found from early spring until late summer, such are peppers (spicy or not), rosemary, basil, peppermint, wild mint, and thyme, as well as some little known autonomous species. The Mt. Orbelos, Orbelus was identified to correspond with the mountain Osogovo in Republic of Macedonia. The Orbelus Mountain forms a part of a great chain separating Paeonia from Dardania and Moesia (Strab. Epit. VII. P. 329.). The area of the Osogovoro Mountain is rich in ore deposits and mines (gold, silver, copper, lead….), which had attracted Saxons in the 13th century, who have settled those regions in order to restore exploit of the mineral wealth.