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Petrota

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Country
  
Greece

Local time
  
Wednesday 5:05 PM

Municipal unit
  
Trigono

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Municipality
  
Orestiada

Regional unit
  
Evros

Petrota

Weather
  
23°C, Wind E at 10 km/h, 24% Humidity

Administrative region
  
Eastern Macedonia and Thrace

Petrota (Greek: Πετρωτά) is a village at the northernmost point of Greece, part of the municipal unit Trigono.

Map of Petrota 680 07, Greece

It was created around 1530 by Greeks that moved there from Epirus and Malta. In 1961 its population was 1,510. In the 1970s a lot of people from Petrota migrated to western Europe, especially to Germany. Its population was 270 at the 2011 census.

References

Petrota Wikipedia