Metaxades

Metaxades Μεταξάδες
Location
Metaxades
Coordinates	41°25′N 26°13′E / 41.417°N 26.217°E / 41.417; 26.217Coordinates: 41°25′N 26°13′E / 41.417°N 26.217°E / 41.417; 26.217
Location within the peripheral unit
Government
Country:	Greece
Region:	East Macedonia and Thrace
Regional unit:	Evros
Municipality:	Didymoteicho
Population statistics (as of 2001)
Municipal unit
- Population:	4,486
Other
Time zone:	EET/EEST (UTC+2/3)
Auto:	EB

Metaxades (Greek: Μεταξάδες, [metaˈksaðes]) is a town and a former municipality in the Evros peripheral unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Didymoteicho, of which it is a municipal unit.^[1] Its 2001 population was 874 for the village, 914 for the community and 4,486 for the municipality. Bulgaria is bordered to the west.

Location

Metaxades is located south of Kyprinos and Ormenio, southwest of Orestiada and Edirne, Turkey, west-northwest of Didymoteicho, northwest of Soufli north of Alexandroupoli, northeast of Athens and east of Bulgaria.

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Metaxades is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets):

• Metaxades (Metaxades, Avdella)
• Alepochori (Alepochori, Polia)
• Asproneri (Asproneri, Giatrades)
• Vrysika (Vrysika, Savra)
• Doxa
• Elafochori (Elafochori, Chionades, Vrysi)
• Ladi
• Paliouri

Population

Year	Town population	Municipal district population	Municipality population
1981	-	1,336	-
1991	-	1,026	-
2001	874	914	4,486

About Metaxades

Metaxades are connected with roads connecting Mega Dereio and Kyprinos and another to Didymoteicho. It has two access to the GR-51/E85 (Alexandorupoli - Didymoteicho - Ormenio) 25 to 40 km apart.

The Thracian Plain and the Evros valley dominates the eastern portion, the mountains are to the west by the Bulgarian border. Its main economy is agriculture and cattle, fruits, vegetables (e.g. tomatoes, potatoes, watermelon, cucumbers), olives, and other crops makes up the main production. Its population lost by half between the 1981 and 2001 censuses.

History

It became entirely Metaxades after the annexation from Bulgaria in 1920, refugees arrived from Eastern Thrace and Asia Minor after the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922). 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 four fifths between 1981 and 2001, its inhabitants left for the larger cities and outside Greece.

References

1. ^ Kallikratis law Greece Ministry of Interior (Greek)

External links

• Official website (Greek)
• Metaxades secondary (gymnasio) and middle school (lykeiakes taxeis) home page (Greek)

	North: Kyprinos	Northeast: Orestiada
West: Bulgaria	Metaxades	East: Didymoteicho
	South: Orfeas