Bublava
Bublava () is a municipality and village in Sokolov District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants. Geaography. The municipality is situated to the west of the Ore Mountains next to the German border and German town Klingenthal. The Bublavský Brook flows through Bublava and the peak of the Aschberg mountain is found on its territory. History. The first written mention of Bublava is from 1601. Trade and intermarriage across the border which once separated Bohemia (and, at times, Austria-Hungary) from Saxony were denied. The inhabitants' alienation and separation from Klingenthal was  largely induced through the draconian post-World War II resettlement moves by Soviet forces, who systematically depopulated the areas bordering the GDR, many kilometers into then Czechoslovakia, deporting the (mostly German and multicultural) population. Some of these deportations forced the refugees to resettle in central Asia and other remote areas of the Soviet Union, if not outright deportation into Gulags. Sport. For more than 100 years, Bublava is known as a winter sports resort.