Country Greece Local time Wednesday 2:14 PM Municipal unit Trigono | Time zone EET (UTC+2) Municipality Orestiada Regional unit Evros | |
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Weather 20°C, Wind E at 10 km/h, 37% Humidity Administrative region Eastern Macedonia and Thrace | ||
Milia (Greek: Μηλιά, also Μηλέα - Milea) is a village in the northern part of the Evros regional unit, Greece. It is in the municipal unit of Trigono. In 2011 its population was 54. It is on the left bank of the river Arda, and on the border with Bulgaria. The nearest larger places are Kyprinos to its east, and Ivaylovgrad (Bulgaria) to its southwest.
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Map of Milia 680 06, Greece
History
The village was founded by the Ottoman Turks, and was known as Bektaşli then. 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.
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Milia, Evros Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA