Chokmanovo () is a village in the municipality of Smolyan, in the Arda valley of the Rhodopi Mountain range. It is 11 km south of the town of Smolyan and 30 km from the ski resort of Pamporovo. The region is very sunny, and the village is near the top of a southern slope so it receives direct sun more than 300 days a year. It has 4 seasons, is snowy in winter, and is subject to spectacular thunderstorms in the late afternoons of summer.
Chokmanovo () is a village in the municipality of Smolyan, in the Arda valley of the Rhodopi Mountain range. It is 11 km south of the town of Smolyan and 30 km from the ski resort of Pamporovo. The region is very sunny, and the village is near the top of a southern slope so it receives direct sun more than 300 days a year. It has 4 seasons, is snowy in winter, and is subject to spectacular thunderstorms in the late afternoons of summer.
In antiquity, the Greeks regarded this as a fierce, uninhabitable area of rough terrain and intolerable weather. The Ottomans seemed to agree, Chokmanovo translates as "the untamable people". The herdsmen in the 20th century practiced an ancient pattern of pasturing. Large family associations moved their herds south to winter in the valleys near the Mediterranean and split into smaller herds to exploit summer pastures in the valleys of the Rhodopes. Chokmanovo was a summer area, and some of the oldest residents still remember walking their donkeys to markets in Xanthi. Because it was on a main thoroughfare, the village was wealthy and the old stone houses were very well built.
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