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Melia
ΜελίαLocation Coordinates 40°57′N 26°6′E / 40.95°N 26.1°ECoordinates: 40°57′N 26°6′E / 40.95°N 26.1°E Government Country: Greece Region: East Macedonia and Thrace Regional unit: Evros Municipality: Alexandroupoli Municipal unit: Feres Population statistics (as of 2001) Village - Population: 93 Other Time zone: EET/EEST (UTC+2/3) Auto: EB Melia (Greek: Μελία) is a village in the municipal unit of Feres, in the Evros Prefecture, northeastern Greece. Melia is located 5 km northwest of Pylaia and 7 km north of Feres. Its 2001 population was 93. Melia is located south-southwest of Soufli, west of the Turkish border, 5 km northwest of Pylaia, 7 km north of Feres and northeast of Alexandroupoli.
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Nearest places
- Pylaia, southeast
Population
Year Population 1950 about 200 1991 115 2001 93 History
Melia 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 mainly without any battles. 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 the world. 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.
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Municipal unit of Alexandroupoli Municipal unit of Feres Municipal unit of Traianoupoli Categories:- Populated places in Evros (peripheral unit)
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