- Thourio, Greece
Thourio (Greek, Modern: Θούριο), older form: -on is a village in the northwestern part of the
Evros Prefecture in Greece located betweenOrestiada andDidymoteicho ] Thourio is in the municipality ofOrestiada . Thourio is located south ofOrestiada andEdirne ,Turkey , west ofOrestiada , west of the border with Turkey, north ofDidymoteicho northeast ofSoufli and north-northeast ofAlexandroupoli . The Evros River is kilometres to the east.Nearest places
*Asimeni, south
*Karoti, southwest
*Neos Pyrgos , northwest
*Orestiada , northPopulation
History
Thourio was ruled by the
Ottoman Empire until theBalkan Wars of 1913, instead of Greece, it joinedBulgaria since it was invaded by them and administered until the Greco-Turkish War which finally ceded toGreece mainly without any battles. During the Catastrophe, refugees arrived from the east and forms a majority of the population today. AfterWorld War II and theGreek Civil War , many of its buildings were rebuilt. Some of its residents moved to other parts of Greece and the world. Its population lose by about two thirds of the 1981 population that made the village lost the most population in Thrace. Much of the population left for larger towns and cities as well as its suburbs around Greece and other parts of the world.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.
Other
Thourio has a school, church, banks, a post office, and a square ("
plateia "), its nearest lyceum (middle school), a gymnasium (secondary school) is in Feres.ee also
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List of settlements in the Evros prefecture External links
* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=10755 Thourio on GTP Travel Pages]
*Coordinates: coord|41|25|48|N|26|33|44|E|type:city(710)_region:GR|display=inline,title
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