Dilofos

Dilofos (Greek: Δίλοφος), also with the first o accented is a village in the municipality of Vyssa in the northern part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece. Dilfos are connected with two roads connecting the GR-51 (Alexandroupoli - Orestiata - Nea Vyssa - Ormenio). The area are flat.

Location

Dilofos is located about 5 km southwest of the Turkish border and about 20 km hwest of Edirne, north of Orestiada, north-northeast of Alexandroupoli and about 1,040 km northeast of Athens (old: 1,015 km) and east-southeast of Ormenio, the Bulgarian border and Svilengrad.

Nearest place

*Dikaia

Population

History

Its name during the Ottoman rule was known as "Yorelkoy", or "'Yoruş" or the same (Юрелкьой/Юруш Yorelkoj/Yorush in Bulgarian). It was annexed to Greece in 1920, many of the Bulgarians were pushed northward. During the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922), refugees east of the Evros river and from Asia Minor rarely arrived into the village. It became entirely Dilofos 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. 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

Dilofos has a church, banks, and a square ("plateia"). Its nearest school, gymnasium (middle school) and lyceum (secondary school) are in Dikaia.

ee also

*List of places in the Evros prefecture

External links

* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=10762 Dilofos on GTP Travel Pages]
*Map and aerial photos:
**Street map information from: [http://www.mapquest./maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=41.702&longitude=26.387&zoom=6 Mapquest] , [http://local.live.com/map.aspx?&lats1=41.702&lons1=26.387&alts1=35 LiveLocal] or [http://maps.google.com/maps?||=41.702,26.387 Google] or [http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?lat=41.702&lon=26.387&mag=2 Yahoo! Maps]
**Satellite
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*Coordinates: coord|41|42|0|N|26|23|0|E|type:city(81)_region:GR|display=inline,title