Greek National Road 51

Greek National Road 51
Greek National Road 30
National Road 51 (European Road 85) in Evros prefecture, Greece with a spring thunderstorm.jpg

The Greek National Road 51 (GR-51) is a highway in northeastern Greece. It connects the Greek National Road 2 (Florina - Thessaloniki - Alexandroupoli - Turkey) near Feres with the Bulgarian border near Ormenio. The main towns on the GR-51 are Didymoteicho and Orestiada. The entire GR-51 is part of the European route E85. Its length is about 128 km. It runs from south to north, parallel to the river Evros.

Course

The southern end of the GR-51 is in the village Ardani, part of the municipality Feres, about 40 km east of Alexandroupoli. Here it branches off the GR-2 (the old Egnatia Odos). 2 km north is a new interchange with the Egnatia Odos freeway. The highway bypasses Soufli, Didymoteicho and Orestiada. At Kastanies there is a connecting road to Karaağaç and Edirne in Turkey. The highway ends near Ormenio at the Greek-Bulgarian border. The only major river that the highway passes over is the Arda in the north.

The highway was first paved after the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922), the remainder was paved in the 1950s.

Places and Junctions


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужно решить контрольную?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Greek National Road 3 — (Ethniki Odos 3 EO3) begins from Eleusis and heads north, passing Larissa, Florina and terminates at the border with the Republic of Macedonia in Niki, which from there links with the M3. The road is part of the E65. In the late 1980s, motorway… …   Wikipedia

  • Greek National Road 74 — is a highway linking Pyrgos, Olympia, Tripoli and GR 7/E65. The west to east highway runs in the western and the central part of the Peloponnese. The highway begins in Pyrgos and into the hills and Olympia and used to ran through narrow roads… …   Wikipedia

  • Greek National Road 76 — (Pyrgos Andritsaina Megalopoli) is a west to east highway linking 2 km W of Krestena with GR 9/E55, Andritsaina and SE of Megalopoli (until 2003, in Megalopoli). The highway west to Andritsaina is unofficially designated as GR 76 The west to …   Wikipedia

  • Greek National Road 9 — is the second longest national highway of Greece. It runs through the western Peloponnese, from Patras to Pylos. Its length is around 220 km (140 mi). This highway travels near: Bypasses: Patras and Area, since 2002 Vrachneika Alissos… …   Wikipedia

  • Greek National Road 95 — is the one of the main arteries on the island of Rhodes and is the only one recorded as a National Highway. It begins from the south part of Rhodes City and ends in the village of Lindos.Until 1999 it was a single lane road that, especially… …   Wikipedia

  • Greek National Road 6 — is a highway in north central Greece. It begins at Igoumenitsa in the Port of Igoumenitsa and ends at Larissa. Part of the new road is run under the name Via Egnatia from Igoumenitsa to east of the tunnel at Metsovo. It has junctions of GR 19GR… …   Wikipedia

  • Greek National Road 5 — is a highway in Western Greece. It runs from 2 km south of Rio at GR 8/GR 9 (westbound), or at the beginning of the Patras By Pass in the south up to the city centre of Ioannina. It is now connected with a new bridge, the Rio Antirio bridge… …   Wikipedia

  • Greek National Road 37 — (Tripoli Sparta Gytheio Areopoli) is a south to north highway linking Tripoli with the GR 7/E55 along with GR 33 and GR 74 at the Tripoli Bypass, Sparta and Areopoli in the Mani Peninsula. The highway begins in Areopoli (Mani s provincial… …   Wikipedia

  • Greek National Road 33 — is a highway that runs from Patras, originally at Dimitris Gounaris Street, now begins at the beltway, and had a branch ending at Olympia, and ends near Vytina, and Levídi, and some think it still ends at Ellinikon near Andritsaina and… …   Wikipedia

  • Greek National Road 82 — (Pylos Kalamata Sparta) is a west to east highway linking Pylos with the GR 9/E55, Kalamata and downtown Sparta with GR 37/E???. The highway begins in downtown Pylos and runs through the southwestern part of Messenia and through curvy roads and… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”