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Otinja (Macedonian: Отиња) is a river that bisects the city of Štip and is a tributary to the Bregalnica river. The river is of medium length, but the last part that flows through the city often dries up in the summer months as the water is blocked upstream for irrigation of the farms and vegetable gardens north of the city.

Church of St Michael (Macedonian Cyrilic: Свети Архангел Михаил), also called Fitija (Фитија) is the most valuable medieval monument of Štip, Republic of Macedonia.The Church was built as the central feature of a monastery in 1332. Its endower was protosebastos Hrelja, a nobleman of Serbian kingdom that ruled Štip since 1282.