Antheia, Evros

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Antheia or Anthia Άνθεια
Country:	Greece
Prefecture:	Evros
Province:	Alexandroupoli
Municipality:	Traianoupoli (seat)
Municipal district:	Antheia
Population: (2001) -Village (change) Municipal district -Percent of the municipal district Percent of the municipality	862 (+137 or +18.9% from 1991) 1,308 65.9% 25.85%
Altitude: -lowest: -centre:	about 10 m 20 m about 200 to 300 m (northwest)
Postal code:	GR-681 00
Car designation:	`EB`

Antheia or Anthia (Greek: Άνθεια) also with the first a accented is a village in the northwestern part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece. Antheia is linked with the road connecting Via Egnatia, the GR-2/E90 (Igoumenitsa - Kozani - Thessaloniki - Kavala - Alexandroupoli) and its nearby interchange which is the only between Alexandroupoli and the GR-51/E85 which is also to the east. Antheia is also in the municipality of Triaianoupoli, the seat of the municipal district and the municipality are in Aristeino or Aristino. Its 2001 population was 862 for the village and 1,308 for the municipal district.

1 Municipal district
2 Location
3 Nearest places
4 Population
5 History
6 Other
7 See also
8 External links

[edit] Municipal district

Aristino or Aristeino

[edit] Location

Antheia is located south-southwest of Soufli and Orestiada, west of Turkey, 20 to 25 km east-northeast of Alexandroupoli, northeast of Athens and east of Thessaloniki.

[edit] Nearest places

Doriko, north-northwest
Loutros, southeast

[edit] Population

Year	Village population	Change	Municipal district population	Percent of the municipal district	Percent of the municipality
1991	725	-	-	-	-
2001	862	+137 or +18.9%	1,308	65.9%	25.85% (village) 39.22% (municipal district)

[edit] History

After World War II and the Greek Civil War, many of its buildings were rebuilt. Electricity and automobiles arrived in the 1960s, it was linked with pavement in the late-20th century, television arrived in the 1980s. Internet and computers arrived in the late-1990s.