Dikella

Dikella or Dikela (Greek: Δίκελλα) is a village in the northern part of the city of Alexandroupoli, Greece, west of the metropolitan area and 30 km west of downtown and a few kilometres west of Makri. Its 2001 population was 288 for the settlement. Dikella is also located east-southeast of Komotini and southeast of Sapes. The area is approximately 25 to 30 km². Dikella is famous for its nearby beach which is about 1 km long, it also has a settlement named Paralia Dikella nearby. That place is where tourism is popular.

Nearest places

*Makri, east

Population

Geography

Its geography consists of farmlands within the coastline. Its length is 5 km long from north to south and 1 to 1.5 km in width from east to west. The mountain ranges lies to the north and are a mixture of forests and barren land, the northern part are mainly underpopulated. The old and the new Egnatia Odos (GR-2/E90, Alexandroupoli - Thessaloniki - Kozani - Igoumenitsa) is to the north with its nearby interchange 10 km north with a curvy road over its valley.

History

Dikella was ruled by the Ottoman Empire until the Balkan Wars of 1913, instead of Greece, it joined Bulgaria since it was invaded by them and administered until the Greco-Turkish War which finally ceded to Greece. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, many of its buildings were rebuilt. Some of its residents moved to other parts of Greece and North America. The population dramatically lost between 1981 and 2001.

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.

Dikella was battered by heavy rainfall on Monday August 6, 2007 and flooded the area and its village, its beaches were unsafe and muddy. Some properties were damaged and several roads were closed.

Other

Dikella has a school, church, banks, a post office, and a square ("plateia"), its nearest lyceum (middle school), a gymnasium (secondary school) is in Makri.

External links

* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=10657 Dikella on GTP Travel Pages]
*Coordinates: coord|40|52|0|N|25|42|0|E|type:city(288)_region:GR|display=inline,title