Country Greece Local time Thursday 12:03 PM Municipal unit Didymoteicho | Time zone EET (UTC+2) Municipality Didymoteicho Regional unit Evros | |
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Weather 11°C, Wind N at 11 km/h, 78% Humidity Administrative region Eastern Macedonia and Thrace | ||
Ellinochori (Greek: Ελληνοχώρι meaning Greek town; formerly Βουλγάρκιοϊ, Bulgarian: Булгаркьой or Балъ Булгаркьой, Turkish: Bulgarkoj or Balı-Bulgarköy, Bulgarian village) is a village in the northeastern part of the Evros regional unit in Greece. Ellinochori is part of the municipality of Didymoteicho. It is situated on the left bank of the river Erythropotamos, northwest of the centre of Didymoteicho. In 2011 its population was 593 for the village and 1,373 for the community, including the villages Lagos and Thyrea.
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Map of Ellinochori 683 00, Greece
History
The village was founded by the Ottoman Turks and named after its mostly Bulgarian population. It was ceded to Bulgaria in 1915 along with the rest of the lower Evros (Maritsa) valley, but following the 1919 Treaty of Neuilly it became part of Greece. As a result its Bulgarian and Turkish population was exchanged with Greek refugees, mainly from today's Turkey.