- Avas, Greece
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Hungary , seeAvas "Avas or Avantas, also Avandas (Greek, Modern: Άβαντας, Katharevoussa: Άβας, Bulgarian: Дервент, Turkish and Bulgarian Romanization: "Dervent"), also with an o accented is a village in the southwestern part of the
Evros Prefecture in Greece. Avantas is located 10 km north ofAlexandroupoli , east ofThessaloniki and northeast of the Greek capitalAthens . Avantas is linked with the road connecting theEgnatia Odos (E90 -Igoumenitsa - Thessaloniki - Alexandroupoli) and the GR-2 (Alexandroupoli - Thessaloniki). Its 2001 population was 238 for the village and 497 for the village.Nearest places
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Aissymi , north
*Alexandroupoli , southPopulation
History
The village was founded by the Ottoman Turks. Its inhabitants were 3/4 Bulgarian and 1/4 Turkish until the annexation of Greece from Bulgaria in 1920 and the
Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) . According to professorLyubomir Miletich , the 1912 population contained 320 exarchist Bulgarian families. [ [http://www.promacedonia.org/bmark/lm_tr/lm_tr_pril_1.htm Любомиръ Милетич. Разорението на тракийскитe българи през 1913 година, Българска Академия на Науките, София, Държавна Печатница, 1918, стр.295.] ] Refugees east of the Evros river and from Asia Minor arrived into the village. Its Turkish originated name changed its name to its current Greek form Avas and later Avantas afterwards. AfterWorld War II and theGreek Civil War , many of its buildings were rebuilt. 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. The village's lost three fourths of its population between 1981 and 1991 and two thirds between 1991 and 2001 totaling to four fifths between 1981 and 2001, its inhabitants left for the larger cities and outside Greece.People
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Mitro Karabeljata , Revolutionary leader and strategist ofTane Nikolov Other
Avas has a nearby school, church, banks, a post office, and a square ("
plateia "). Its nearest lyceum (middle school) and gymnasium (secondary school) are in Alexandroupoli.ee also
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List of places in the Evros prefecture References
External links
* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=10749 Avas or Avantas on GTP Travel Pages]
*Coordinates: coord|40|55|59|N|25|55|0|E|type:city(497)_region:GR|display=inline,title
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