Vievo

Vievo is a Pomak village in the Rhodope Mountains in the Smolyan Province of Bulgaria. It has a population of 493 and is located at an altitude of 1,080 meters. [cite web
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During the First Balkan War, the village was set on fire by the local Bulgarian militia to ethnically cleanse the Muslim Turks 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 Cakalova, Planina, and Livada.

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

ee also

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

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External links

* [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/BU/34/Vievo.html Vievo, Bulgaria]
* [http://www.guide-bulgaria.com/SC/Smolyan/Smolyan/Vievo Quick facts about Vievo]
* [http://www.greekhelsinki.gr/english/reports/pomaks.html The Pomaks]
* [http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19930601faessay5199/andrew-bell-fialkoff/a-brief-history-of-ethnic-cleansing.html A Brief History of Ethnic Cleansing]