Ambelakia, Evros

Ampelakia or A(m)belakia (Greek: Αμπελάκια meaning vineyards), accented form: Ampel is a village in the municipality of Vyssa in the northern part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece. Ambelakia are connected with two roads connecting the GR-51 (Alexandroupoli - Orestiada - Nea Vyssa - Ormenio). The area are mainly made up of hills and mountains, farmlands dominate the area.

Location

Ambelakia is located about 14 km west of Orestiada, 25 km northwest of Didymoteicho, km southwest of the Turkish border and Edirne, north-northeast of Alexandroupoli and about 1,000 km northeast of Athens and east-southeast of Ormenio, the Bulgarian border and Svilengrad.

Nearest place

*Patagi, east-northeast (distance: 4 km)
*Poimeniko, south (distance: 2 km)
*Chionades, west
*Valtos, north

Population

History

Its name during the Ottoman period was Kouliaklis. It was annexed to Greece in 1920. Its population were made up of Bulgarians, Turks and Greeks, refugees east of the Evros river and from Asia Minor rarely arrived into the village during the Asia Minor Catastrophe and the Bulgarians and the Turks left, its population became entirely Greek. It became entirely Ampelakia 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 decline in population was several in the prefecture that did not lost as much, it lost by a tiny bit 14% 1991 and 2001, down from 16% between 1981 and 1991.

Other

Ambelakia has a church, banks, and a square ("plateia"). Its school, gymnasium (middle school) and lyceum (secondary school) are in Orestiada.

ee also

*List of places in the Evros prefecture
*Administrative divisions of the Evros prefecture

External links

* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=107353 Ambelakia on GTP Travel Pages]