- Palli, Evros
Palli or Pali (Greek: Πάλλη), accented form: Kriós is a village in the municipality of
Vyssa in the northern part of theEvros Prefecture in Greece. Krios are connected with two roads connecting the GR-51 (Alexandroupoli - Orestiada - Nea Vyssa - Ormenio). The area are flat. Agriculture is its main industry.Location
Pali is located about 4 km southwest of Dikaia, 8 to 10 km southwest of the Turkish border and about 25 km west of
Edirne , north ofOrestiada , north-northeast ofAlexandroupoli and about 1,045 km northeast ofAthens and east-southeast ofOrmenio , theBulgaria n border andSvilengrad .Nearest place
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Dikaia Population
History
Its name during the Ottoman rule was known as "Bëldërkoy" (Бюлдюркьой "Byoldyorkoy" in Bulgarian, from bëldër and koy - village). It was annexed to
Greece in 1920. During theGreco-Turkish War (1919-1922) , refugees east of the Evros river and from Asia Minor rarely arrived into the village. It became entirely Pali after the annexation. AfterWorld War II and theGreek 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 decline in population was several in the prefecture that did not lost as much, it lost by 10% between 1991 and 2001.Other
Pali has a church, banks, and a square ("
plateia "). Its school, gymnasium (middle school) and lyceum (secondary school) are in Dikaia.ee also
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List of places in the Evros prefecture External links
* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=10771 Pali on GTP Travel Pages]
*Map and aerial photos:
**Street map information from: [http://www.mapquest./maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=41.702&longitude=26.387&zoom=6 Mapquest] , [http://local.live.com/map.aspx?&lats1=41.702&lons1=26.387&alts1=35 LiveLocal] or [http://maps.google.com/maps?||=41.702,26.387 Google] or [http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?lat=41.702&lon=26.387&mag=2 Yahoo! Maps]
**Satellitehttp://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.702,23.387&spn=0.11,0.18&t=k Google] or [http://virtualearth.msn.com/default.aspx?cp=41.702|26.387&style=h&lvl=15&v=1 Microsoft Virtual Earth] - image now available
*Coordinates: coord|41|42|0|N|26|23|0|E|type:city(53)_region:GR|display=inline,title
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