Lyalevo

Lyalevo or Lyalyovo (Bulgarian: Лялево, Ляльово, Greek: Λιάλεβο) is a former village in southernmost western Bulgaria which ceased to exist in 1960.

It was located at the foot of the Lalevski Vrah or Sveta Elena (Saint Helena) summit, 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) from the town of Gotse Delchev (Nevrokop).

According to traditional stories recorded by Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov, those Greeks came from the Chalkidiki peninsula on the Aegean Sea in the first quarter of the 19th century.

They fled their home places and converted to Islam following the massacres in the wake of an unsuccessful anti-Ottoman uprising in 1821, as part of the Greek War of Independence.

[6] After the Second Balkan War of 1913, Lyalevo's population moved to Greece because the village (as with all of Pirin Macedonia) became part of the Kingdom of Bulgaria.