Country Greece Local time Saturday 9:46 AM Municipal unit Vyssa | Time zone EET (UTC+2) Municipality Orestiada Regional unit Evros | |
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Weather 8°C, Wind N at 8 km/h, 87% Humidity Administrative region Eastern Macedonia and Thrace | ||
Kavyli (Greek: Καβύλη) is a village in the northern part of the Evros regional unit in Greece. It is part of the municipal unit of Vyssa, which is part of the municipality Orestiada since 2011. In 2011 its population was 758. It is bypassed by the Greek National Road 51 (Feres - Soufli - Orestiada - Ormenio). It is 7 km north of the centre of Orestiada, and 4 km southwest of Nea Vyssa.
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Map of Kavyli 682 00, Greece
History
The village was founded by the Ottoman Turks, it was known as Emirler (Емирлер in Bulgarian). After a brief period of Bulgarian rule between 1913 and 1919, it became part of Greece. As a result its Bulgarian and Turkish population was exchanged with Greek refugees, mainly from today's Turkey. Kavyli joined the municipality of Vyssa in the late 1990s.
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Kavyli Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA