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| '''Thourio''' (Greek, Modern: Θούριο |
'''Thourio''', older form: '''-on''' (Greek, Modern: Θούριο, bulgarian: ''Kableshkovo'', turkish: ''Urlu'') is a village in the northwestern part of the ] in Greece located between ] and ]]. Thourio is in the municipality of ]. Thourio is located south of ] and ], ], west of ], west of the border with Turkey, north of ] northeast of ] and north-northeast of ]. The ] is 2,5 kilometres to the east. | ||
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| Thourio Θούριο | |
|---|---|
| Settlement | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | East Macedonia and Thrace |
| Municipality | Orestiada |
| Population | |
| • Rural | 706 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Vehicle registration | OP |
Thourio, older form: -on (Greek, Modern: Θούριο, bulgarian: Kableshkovo, turkish: Urlu) is a village in the northwestern part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece located between Orestiada and Didymoteicho]. Thourio is in the municipality of Orestiada. Thourio is located south of Orestiada and Edirne, Turkey, west of Orestiada, west of the border with Turkey, north of Didymoteicho northeast of Soufli and north-northeast of Alexandroupoli. The Evros River is 2,5 kilometres to the east.
Nearest places
- Asimeni, south
- Karoti, southwest
- Neos Pyrgos, northwest
- Orestiada, north
Population
| Year | Population |
|---|---|
| 1981 | 2,245 |
| 1991 | 722 |
| 2001 | 706 |
History
Urlu, as turks named the present Thourio, was ruled by the Ottoman Empire until the first Balkan Wars in 1912. It was a important train-station on the line Adrianopol-Thessaloniki. Urlu joined to Bulgarian state territory since 1913 with Treaty of Bucharest (1913) and renamed as Kableshkovo. The town become a part of Bulgaria until the Greco-Turkish War after which ceded to Greece and receive the present name. After the World War I many of bulgarians were displaced. In 1922 as a result of The Asia minor military Catastrophe, refugees arrived from East Thrace and Asia minor forms a majority of the today population. After the World War II and the Greek Civil War, many of the buildings were rebuilt, but in the following years many of the inhabitants move to the larger towns and cities as well as its suburbs around Greece and other parts of the world. The small town lose by about 2/3 of its citizens and that made it the village lost the most population in Thrace.
Electricity and automobiles arrived in the 1960s, it was linked with pavement in the late-20th century, television arrived in the 1980s. Internet and computers arrived in the late-1990s.
See also
External links
References
- De Facto Population of Greece Population and Housing Census of March 18th, 2001 (PDF 39 MB). National Statistical Service of Greece. 2003.