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Dimitro Sino Dimitro is a one-voice Rhodope song the village Smolyan. Smolyan is located in the central Rhodope mountains, whose highly lyrical and ornamental musical tradition is considered to be the most pure and original Rhodope sound, and whose characteristics are defined by it's large rolling mountains, centuries long isolation from surrounding regions, and it's colonization by the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire forced its subjects to convert to Islam, which banned women from singing in public. For this reason, Rhodope singing grew to be quieter and more subtle than the later Ottoman colonized, more stridently singing regions to the north and west. Today, Muslim Rhodope and Bulgarians from other regions are referred to as 'Pomak' and have their own distinct and very rich musical traditions within Bulgaria. Smolyan is also its own linguistic dialect, and is the most idiosyncratic of all the Bulgarian dialects.