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Vievo
Overlooking the village

Vievo is a village in the Rhodope Mountains in the Smolyan Province of Bulgaria.

History

During the First Balkan War, the village was set on fire by the local Bulgarian militia to ethnically cleanse the Muslim population from the region. The remaining population took refuge in the nearby town of Chepelare. Most of the old inhabitants died in this town during the winter of 1913. Later former Vievo inhabitants again settled in the village and then dispersed to smaller valleys, tending to settle in a couple of houses clustering together. Some of the names are Chakalovo, Planina, and Livada.

Vievo was subject to the Communist regime's name change campaign during the 1970s and its huge wooden mosque was torn down by the communists in 1973.

See also

• The Destruction of Thracian Bulgarians in 1913
• Second Balkan War

Notes

External links

• Quick facts about Vievo
• The Pomaks
• A Brief History of Ethnic Cleansing

41°23′N 24°30′E / 41.39°N 24.50°E / 41.39; 24.50

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Capital: Smolyan
Villages	Aligovska Arda Belev dol Bilyanska Borikovo Bostina Bukata Bukatsite Chamla Chepleten Chereshkite Chereshovo Chereshovska Reka Chokmanovo Chuchur Dimovo Dunevo Elenska Elyovo Fatovo Gabritsa Gela Gozdevitsa Gorna Arda Gorovo Gradat Gudevitsa Hasovitsa Isyovtsi Katranitsa Kiselichevo Kokorkovo Koshnitsa Kremene Kukuvitsa Kutela Laka Levochevo Lipets Lyulka Milkovo Mogilitsa Momchilovtsi Mugla Nadartsi Oreshitsa Ostri Pazlak Petkovo Peshtera Pisanitsa Podvis Polkovnik Serafimovo Poprelka Potoka Rechani Reka Rovina Selishte Shiroka Laka Sivino Slaveyno Smilyan Sokolovtsi Solishta Sredok Stikal Stoykite Sarnino Strazha Taran Tikale Trebishte Turyan Varbovo Vievo Vlahovo Valchan Zaevite Zmievo
Landmarks	Agushevi konatsi Bulgarian National Astronomical Observatory Church of Saint Vissarion of Smolyan Smolyan Lakes Snezhanka Uhlovitsa Cave
Culture	Smolyan dialect Rozhen National Folklore Fair The Rhodopi International Theater Collective PFC Rodopa Smolyan
Notable people	Vasil Angelov Valya Balkanska Dicho Uzunov Assen Vassilev

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