Country Greece Local time Wednesday 3:10 PM Municipal unit Trigono | Time zone EET (UTC+2) Municipality Orestiada Regional unit Evros | |
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Weather 23°C, Wind E at 5 km/h, 29% Humidity Administrative region Eastern Macedonia and Thrace | ||
Ptelea (Greek: Πτελέα) is a village in the northern part of the Evros regional unit, Greece. It is part of the municipal unit of Trigono. In 2011 its population was 441. It is located on the right bank of the river Evros, where it forms the border with Bulgaria. It is bypassed by the Greek National Road 51/E85 (Alexandroupoli - Orestiada - Ormenio - Svilengrad). The town was formerly known as Karagatsoudi (Καραγατσούδι) and El-Karakas (Ελ-Καράκας), its Turkish name was Karaagaç.
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Map of Ptelea 680 07, Greece
The nearest villages are Dikaia to its east, and Ormenio to its northwest.
History
Ptelea was founded in 1924 by refugees from Eastern Thrace. In 1997 under the Capodistrian Plan, the community of Ptelea became part of the new municipality of Trigono with 12 other former communities. At the Kallikratis reform, it became part of the municipality of Orestiada.