Nea Vyssa

Nea Vyssa Νέα Βύσσα
Location
Nea Vyssa
Coordinates	41°35′N 26°32′E / 41.583°N 26.533°E / 41.583; 26.533Coordinates: 41°35′N 26°32′E / 41.583°N 26.533°E / 41.583; 26.533
Government
Country:	Greece
Region:	East Macedonia and Thrace
Regional unit:	Evros
Municipality:	Orestiada
Municipal unit:	Vyssa
Population statistics (as of 2001)
Village
- Population:	2,841
Other
Time zone:	EET/EEST (UTC+2/3)

Nea Vyssa (Greek: Νέα Βύσσα) is a village in the southern part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece. It was the seat of the municipality of Vyssa from the late 1990s until 2011. Nea Vyssa is connected by 2 roads to the GR-51 (Alexandroupoli - Orestiata - Nea Vyssa - Ormenio) and has a road link to Edirne in Turkey. Its 2001 population was 545 for the settlement and 1,120 for the municipal district. The area is flat. The OSE's Alexandroupoli - Kastanies railway line runs nearly 1 km to the west.

Location

Nea Vyssa is located southwest of the Turkish border and about 10 km southwest of Edirne, north of Orestiada, north-northeast of Alexandroupoli and about 1,010 km northeast of Athens (old: 1,015 km) and east-southeast of Ormenio, the Bulgarian border and Svilengrad.

Nearest places

• Kavyli, southwest
• Kastanies, northwest

Population

Year	Population
1981	3,935
1991	3,302
2001	2,844

History

The origin of the name dates back to ancient times, as warriors of Vissa. Older homes were built with a stylistic kind. The family of Constantin Carathéodory were descended from Vosnochori.

Its name under Ottoman rule was Ahorkoy, (Ahorkoj or the same as its name in Bulgarian, Ахоркьой). It was annexed to Greece between 1912 and 1920, it was in the line where it had the Greek population prior to the annexation. During the Greco Turkish War (1919-1922), refugees east of the Evros river and from Asia Minor occasionally came to the village. Vyssa (now Bosna) was reconquered by the Turks along with Sideropetra (Demirtaş), and its residents moved to what it became Nea Vyssa. It became entirely Achyrochori (Αχυροχώρι) and later Nea Vyssa after the annexation. After World War II and the Greek 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. Computers and access to the internet arrived in the late 1990s. The village lost three fourths of its population between 1981 and 1991 and two thirds between 1991 and 2001, totaling nearly half between 1981 and 2001; its inhabitants left for the larger cities and outside Greece.

See also

• List of places in the Evros prefecture

External links

• Nea Vyssa on GTP Travel Pages

References