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Thourio (Greek, Modern: Θούριο, Bulgarian: Каблешково, 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, 8 km southwest of Orestiada, west of the border between Creece and Turkey, north of Didymoteicho northeast of Soufli and north-northeast of Alexandroupoli. The Maritsa (Evros) River is 4 kilometres to the east.

Nearest places

• Asimeni, south
• Karoti, southwest
• Neos Pyrgos, northwest
• Orestiada, north

Population

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 railway train-station on the line Adrianopol-Thessaloniki. Urlu joined to Bulgaria in 1912 during the First Balkan War and according to the Treaty of London (1913). The Treaty of Bucharest (1913) return it to Turkey, but pretty soon the Turkey-Bulgarian 1915 Convention restored Bulgarian sovereignty and the town named Kableshkovo. It become a part of Bulgaria until the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) 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

• List of settlements in the Evros prefecture

External links

• Thourio on GTP Travel Pages

References

1. De Facto Population of Greece Population and Housing Census of March 18th, 2001 (PDF 39 MB). National Statistical Service of Greece. 2003.

• Populated places in Evros (peripheral unit)