Kyriaki, Evros

Kyriaki or Kiriaki (Greek: Κυριακή), also with the second or third i accented is a village in the northcentral part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece, its population ranking is the last as the municipal district and is one of the least populated in the municipality. Kyriaki is in the municipality of Orfeas. The location is in the westcentral portion of the prefectural mainland. Kyriaki is linked with the road connecting GR-51/E85 (Alexandroupoli - Soufli - Orestiada - Ormenio) and Mega Dereio with no road connecting Bulgaria or any trails, the trails are fenced. Its 2001 population was 162 for the settlement. The area are hilly and forested while the mountains dominate the west, most of the area are forested, farmlands are within the village.

Location

It is in the Eastern Rhodope mountains and is 15 km southeast by the Bulgarian-Greek border. Mega Dereio is located about 90 km southwest of Orestiada, 65 km west-southwest of Didymoteicho, west-northwest of the Evros River and the Turkish border, 70 km north of Alexandroupoli, northeast of the Greek capital city of Athens and east-southeast of the Bulgarian border.

Nearest place

*Megalo Dereio, west
*Amorio, east

Population

History

The village was founded by the Ottoman Turks in the 14th century, its name was known as Kayadjik(Каяджик, Turkish: "Kayajik"). Its 1830 population was 310 Bulgarians, 236 in 1878, 230 in 1912 of which 150 were Bulgarian exarchists, revoltions occurred during the pre-Bulgarian rule. According to professor Lyubomir Miletich, the 1912 population had around 200 Bulgarian families. In 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 Greco Turkish War (1919-1922), refugees east of the Evros river and from Asia Minor arrived into the village. It became entirely Mikro Dereio after the annexation. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, 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.

Person

*Nikola Atanasov Spirov (Никола Атанасов Спиров, 1908-?), Bulgarian leader of the Thracian Organization (1944 - 1961)

Other

Kyriaki has a school, a gymnasium (middle school) church, banks, a post office, and a square ("plateia"). Its nearest lyceum (secondary school) is in Amori.

ee also

*List of places in the Evros prefecture

External links

* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=10743 Kyriaki on GTP Travel Pages]
* [http://www.liternet.br/folklor/sbornici/ddbj/48.htm Kyriaki at liternet.bg] bg icon
* [http://www.liternet.br/folklor/sbornici/bnt/6/415.htm Kyriaki at liternet.bg] bg icon
* [http://www.liternet.br/folklor/sbornici/bnt/6/395.htm Kyriaki at liternet.bg] bg icon
*Coordinates: coord|41|6|3|N|26|18|50|E|type:city(255)_region:GR|display=inline,title