Trigono

Trigono (Greek: Τρίγωνο meaning the three angles), older form: -on is a municipality in the Evros Prefecture, Greece with a population 6,656 (2001 census). The seat of the municipality is in Dikaia. Its area is 392.538 km², covering 9.25% of the prefecture. The municipality is in three angles, the east, the north and west and is the country's northernmost. It borders Bulgaria to the north and Turkey to the northeast, one of the municipalities bordered in Bulgaria is Svilengrad. The municipality was created in 1997 under the Capodistrian Plan. It is nicknamed the Mesopotamia of Evros which has the Arda river, all of the villages are north of the river. Much of its geography are situated in a plain that stretches to the Bosporus in Turkey, the hills dominate the western portions with lower ones in the centre.

Its seal is the northern portion of Evros with a blue in the middle and village names along with its forests in the middle. It has the greek names Bulgaria (Voulgaria) and Turkey (Tourkia) at the top in which it borders. The seal is bilingual in Greek and English.

Information

The area of Trigono was under Ottoman Turkish rule until the Balkan Wars, after, it ceded to Bulgaria and remain for the next seven years and finally joined the rest of Greece. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, its buildings were rebuilt. Much of the houses were stone built until the 1960s. Electricity arrived in the same year. Vehicles arrived in the 1970s, the pavement of the main road and television arrived in the 1980s and computer and internet are rarely known in the beginning of the 21st century and up to date technology are not seen.

Municipal districts

*Arzos
**Kanada
*Dikaia or Dikea
**Dilofos
**Krios
**Palli
*Elaia
*Therapeio
*Komara
*Marasia
*Milia
*Ormenio
*Pentalofos
*Petrota
*Plati
*Ptelea
*Spilaio

Population

Other

Trigono has schools, lyceums (middle schoola) a few gymnasia (secondary schools), churches, banks, shops and a square ("plateia").

External links

* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=10779 Trigono on GTP Travel Pages]
* [http://www.trigono.gr/ Official website] el icon
*Map and aerial photos:
**Street map information from: [http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=39.42&longitude=20.23&zoom=6 Mapquest] , [http://local.live.com/map.aspx?&lats1=39.42&lons1=20.23&alts1=35 LiveLocal] or [http://maps.google.com/maps?||=39.42,20.23 Google] or [http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?lat=39.42&lon=20.23&mag=2 Yahoo! Maps]
**Satellite
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	North: Bulgaria (along with Svilengrad)	Northeast: Turkey (along ith Edirne)
West: Bulgaria	Trigono	East: Turkey (along with Edirne)
	South: Kyprinos	Southeast: Vyssa