- Ptelea, Evros
Ptelea ( _el. Πτελέα) also with the second a accented is a village in the northwestern part of the
Evros Prefecture in Greece located west ofTurkey andEdirne , southeast ofOrmenio andSvilengrad , Bulgaria, north ofAlexandroupoli and east ofKurdzhali , Bulgaria.Athens , the Greek capital, is nearly 500 km South East of the village. Ptelea is linked with the GR-51/E85 (Alexandroupoli - Soufli - Orestiada -Ormeni ). Komara is also in the municipality ofTrigono . Its 2001 population was 477 for the village. The Evros river is flowed to the north which form its border with Bulgaria to the north. The name of the town was known as Karagatsoudi (Καραγατσούδι) and El-Karakas (Ελ-Καράκας), its Turkish name was "Karaagaç" and its Bulgarian name was "Караагач", the only name that is known by Karaagaç is to the east on the other side ofEdirne .Nearest places
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Dikaia , east
*Spilaio, east
*Pentalofos, south
*Plati, southwest
*Ormenio , northwestPopulation
History
Ptelea was founded in 1924 by refugees from
Eastern Thrace . AfterWorld War II and theGreek Civil War , many of its buildings were rebuilt. In 1997 under theCapodistrian Plan , the community of Ptelea became the new municipality of Trigono with 16 other former communities. 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
Ptelea has a school, church, banks, a post office, and a square ("
plateia "), its nearest lyceum (middle school), a gymnasium (secondary school) is in Soufli.ee also
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List of settlements in the Evros prefecture External links
* [http://www.el-karakas.de El-Karakas]
* [http://www.ptelea.de Ptelea]
* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=10794 Ptelea on GTP Travel Pages]
*Coordinates: coord|41|41|59|N|26|14|24|E|type:city(477)_region:GR|display=inline,title
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