 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.