Chandras

Chandras Χανδράς
Location
Chandras
Coordinates	41°31′N 26°18′E / 41.517°N 26.3°E / 41.517; 26.3Coordinates: 41°31′N 26°18′E / 41.517°N 26.3°E / 41.517; 26.3
Government
Country:	Greece
Region:	East Macedonia and Thrace
Regional unit:	Evros
Municipality:	Orestiada
Municipal unit:	Orestiada
Population statistics (as of 2001)
Village
- Population:	223
Other
Time zone:	EET/EEST (UTC+2/3)
Auto:	OP

Chandras (Greek: Χανδράς) is a village in the municipality of Orestiada in the northern part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece. The area is mainly made up of hills and mountains, farmlands dominate the area.

Location

Chandras is located about 22 km west of Orestiada, 25 km northwest of Didymoteicho, 25 km west of the Turkish border and Edirne, north-northeast of Alexandroupoli and about 1,010 km northeast of Athens and east-southeast of Ormenio, the Bulgarian border and Svilengrad.

Nearest place

• Valtos, east-northeast
• Doxades, south
• Megali Doxipara, southwest

Population

Year	Population
1981	322
1991	287
2001	223

History

It was annexed to Greece in 1920, prior it was ruled by the Ottomans. 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 Chandra after the annexation, between 1913 and 1920, the Bulgarian-Turkish border was near the area. 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.

See also

• List of places in the Evros prefecture

External links

• Chandra on GTP Travel Pages

References