Viye (also known as Bié, Bieno, or Bihe) was one of the traditional Ovimbundu kingdoms, located in the central plateau of Angola. Its capital city was Ecovongo.

During the 18th and 19th centuries, the kingdom was an important crossroads through which Central African and Southern African trade flowed.

Viye was originally an independent kingdom, later becoming a Portuguese vassal. The kingdom was led by a king, who had an assortment of nobles subordinate to him. The kings of Viye, particularly in the late 1700s and early 1800s, contested with their nobility in a mutual effort to gain supremacy.

In 1797, Portuguese trader João Nepomucena Correia described that the kings of Viye had a group of wholly dependent servants (known as mocotas), drawn from the slaves held by his predecessors, among others. The slaves were mostly derived from debtors and could not be sold. These servants served as ministers and war leaders (known as Quisongos). In the mid-19th century, Hungarian adventurer Lázló Magyar observed that the kingdom was divided into two classes of nobility; elombe ya soma, or descendants of rulers, and the elombe ya sekulu, heads of local territories.

Subjects paid taxes in cattle and chickens, grains, corn, beans, potatoes, manioc, and pumpkins. Various fruits were also produced in the kingdom, while women baked bread and made alcohol. In the 1840s, around 80,000 people lived in Viye. Locals hunted elephants and raised cattle. Trade goods such as wax, ivory, and slaves were also sold in Viye.

In 1797, Portuguese trader João Nepomucena Correia wrote that kings of Viye were selected by the mocotas (slaves) and nobles of the realm, who voted for the most respected and powerful of the sons and brothers of the previous king.

The origins of Viye are unclear, and there are conflicting narratives that attempt to put together an origin story for the kingdom. Generally, a ruler known as Viye is credited with founding the kingdom, sometime around the early 1700s.

One tradition suggests there was a hunter, known as Vingongombanda Kopeta. One day, he successfully hunted an elephant and rushed to the village for assistance in transporting the animal. However, villagers at the time believed only those with 'sacred powers' could kill an elephant, and Kopeta was expelled from the village. When Kopeta returned to the elephant, he found it had disappeared and followed the tracks it had left behind, eventually leading him to the village of Etalala on the right bank of the Kukema River. Kopeta ended up settling in the village, and taught himself how to hunt with the use of oxen. Whenever he travelled to the village he would ask the local herders, "Olongombe Viye", meaning, "let the oxen come". The villagers nicknamed him Viye because of this. Ultimately, he attempted to go after the elephant once more, leading him to Mount Lubya. There, he found a girl named Kahanda who later became his wife. Kopeta abandoned the search for the elephant and returned to Etalala, where the ruling oSama agreed to build him a village of his own. Kopeta and Kahanda had a son named Eyambi ya Viye. Later in life, Kopeta grew ill and Viye ran to a spring to fetch water for his ailing father. While at the spring, he heard a bellowing voice informing him of his father's death. He rushed back to the village of Etalala. Upon informing the village of his experience, a local diviner informed him he heard the voice of Vingongombanda, and that he must build a village in Ekovongo (call of the oxen). Their descendants would go on to form Viye.