Beden

Beden lies among the wooded mountains of the western Rhodopes, near the valley of the Shirokolashka River. Mixed beech and pine forests surround the village, and warm mineral springs rise in the district. Above it stood the fortress of Beadnos, one of the strongholds contested during the Ottoman advance into the Rhodopes. The village appears as Bedan in Ottoman records alongside other settlements of the Devin district, a mountain country of steep valleys and scattered communities.