Country Greece Local time Wednesday 5:05 PM Municipal unit Trigono | Time zone EET (UTC+2) Municipality Orestiada Regional unit Evros | |
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(Text) CC BY-SA