In the photo you can see the site of Mómtskïy Kámen near the village of Pachni. All residents of Pachni know the history of this rock. As the old men of the village say, local girls committed suicide from this rock to escape the Turks.
During the years of the Ottoman Empire, the Turks had come to the area and were trying by force to take many Pomakissas and make them Turkish. These women did not want to become Turkals and for this reason they climbed a steep cliff, tied their hair braids together and fell over the cliff. Until many years later, the shepherds found remains of the girls (rings, bracelets, etc.) at the base of the rock. Similar testimonies exist in other pomako villages of mountainous Xanthi.
In Mandaina Mykis there is the Chervén Kámen rock, in Glavki there is the Gulâm Kámen rock, near Medusa there is the Mómin Kámen. Also above Smolyan in Bulgaria (formerly called Pasmakli) is the Neviástata rock from which a bride who was forced to marry her to a Turk fell from it. These are only a few of the old testimonies that the Pomaks still keep in their memory and which prove that from the past the Pomaks did not want to have interference with the Turks.
SOURCE:TURKISH NEWS