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The village was founded by the ] Turks in the 14th century, its name was known as Kayadjik(Каяджик, Turkish: ''Kayajik''). Its 1830 population was 310 Bulgarian families, 236 families (houses) in 1878, 230 families in 1912, of which 150 were Bulgarian exarchists, revoltions <!--revolutionaries?--> occurred during the pre-Bulgarian rule. According to professor ], the 1912 population had around 200 Bulgarian families. On August 8, 1913, the village battled with the Turks and handed to the Bulgarians. At the end of the Bulgarian rule, 150 Bulgarians moved northward into the remainder of Bulgaria which is now north, the remainder of the Turks were pushed to the western portion of today's Turkey. During the ], refugees east of the Evros river and from Asia Minor arrived into the village. It became entirely Mikro Dereio after the annexation. After ] and the ], many of its buildings were rebuilt. 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. The village's lost three fourths of its population between 1981 and 1991 and two thirds between 1991 and 2001 totaling to nearly half between 1981 and 2001, its inhabitants left for the larger cities and outside Greece. |
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The village was founded by the ] Turks in the 14th century, its name was known as Kayadjik(Turkish: ''Kayajik''). Its 1830 population was 310 Bulgarian families, 236 families (houses) in 1878, 230 families in 1912, of which 150 were Bulgarian exarchists, revoltions <!--revolutionaries?--> occurred during the pre-Bulgarian rule. According to professor ], the 1912 population had around 200 Bulgarian families. On August 8, 1913, the village battled with the Turks and handed to the Bulgarians. At the end of the Bulgarian rule, 150 Bulgarians moved northward into the remainder of Bulgaria which is now north, the remainder of the Turks were pushed to the western portion of today's Turkey. During the ], refugees east of the Evros river and from Asia Minor arrived into the village. It became entirely Mikro Dereio after the annexation. After ] and the ], many of its buildings were rebuilt. 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. The village's lost three fourths of its population between 1981 and 1991 and two thirds between 1991 and 2001 totaling to nearly half between 1981 and 2001, its inhabitants left for the larger cities and outside Greece. |