an ancient Thracian tribe. Today signs of this tribe remain in Thracian villages and hillside necropoleis. The oldest archeological item found near the village was 1 km south of the village on the right-hand side of the rode to Razheno Konare. It was a rock scepter composed of the head of a horse and part of its neck. The scepter is the first of its kind found in Bulgaria and dates towards either the end of the Chalcolithic and beginning of the Bronze Age or the early Iron Age. Around 2 km north of Razhevo, in the Yamachkata (or Rogachev Kladenets) area, where the Chernozem-Begovo road currently runs, there are traces of the largest settlement of the tribe in the region, which existed even during the Roman period. In it, silver, billon and copper Roman coins from the second and third century, as well as ceramics were found. The necropolis of the settlement is made of 13 mounds. Another settlement's necropolis was discovered in the Dervishova Mogila area. The discovery of these (currently destroyed) necropoleis gives evidence that Razhevo was constructed on the remains of an old Thracian settlement. The second largest settlement is southwest of Razhevo with a necropolis made of 7 mounds. Remains of a Roman community can be found in the Barata area. In the surrounding areas near Suhozem, a Roman army diploma to a Thracian named Doles was discovered. He served in Syria under Emperor Vespasian (69-79 CE), which gives evidence of the widespread knowledge in Roman times of the region between Razhevo and Suhozem. In the land surrounding the village there are several Christian places—"Saint Iliya" near Popska Mogila, "Saint George" in the Old cemetery, "Saint Mary" in the southeastern end of the village, and "Saint Nicholas" east of the village, to the right of the road to Razhevo Konare and Krasta. In the Ottoman Empire Information about Razhevo as "Varzhova" or "Virizheva" is contained in Ottoman registers from 1562 and 1576. The village shows up as the only Christian village in the northern part of the large waqf of the Plovdiv Shahbettin Imaret Cami (). The mosque was established in the 15th century by the Beylerbey of Rumelia, Shahbedin Pasha. В джелепкешанския регистър на Мехмед Чауш от 1576 година селото е споменато като Вирижева и е едно от 8-те християнски села от 54-те села в Стремската долина. Based on archeological and folkloric information during