- Rizia
Rizia (Greek: Ρίζια), also with the first oi accented is a village in the municipality of
Vyssa in the northern part of theEvros Prefecture in Greece. Rizia is connected with two roads connecting the GR-51 (Alexandroupoli - Orestiata - Nea Vyssa - Ormenio). The area are flat. TheArda River flows to the north.Location
Rizia is located about 5 km southwest of the Turkish border and about 15 km southwest of
Edirne , north ofOrestiada , north-northeast ofAlexandroupoli and about 1,015 km northeast ofAthens (old: 1,015 km) and east-southeast ofOrmenio , theBulgaria n border andSvilengrad .Nearest place
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Kastanies , northeast (distance: 3 km)
*Kavyli , south (distance: 4 km)
*Fylakio west (distance: 10 km)
*Plati, northwestPopulation
History
The origin of the name dates back to the ancient times as a warriors of Vissa. Older homes were built with a stylistic kind. The family of
Konstantinos Karatheodoris were descended from Vosnochori.Its name during the Ottoman rule was known as "Dujaros", or the same ("Dudzharos", Дуджарос) in Bulgarian). It was annexed to
Greece between 1912 and 1920, many of the Bulgarians were pushed northward. During theGreco Turkish War (1919-1922) , refugees east of the Evros river and from Asia Minor rarely arrived into the village. It became entirely Rizia after the annexation. 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 nearly half between 1981 and 2001, its inhabitants left for the larger cities and outside Greece.Other
Rizia has a school, a gymnasium (middle school) church, banks, a train station, a post office, and a square ("
plateia "). Its nearest lyceum (secondary school) is in Nea Vyssa.ee also
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List of places in the Evros prefecture External links
**http://vissa.evros.gr/rizia.html el icon
* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=10797 Rizia on GTP Travel Pages]
*Coordinates: coord|41|37|17|N|26|25|34|E|type:city(1,684)_region:GR|display=inline,title
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