Arzos

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Arzos
Άρζος
Statistics
Country: Greece
Prefecture: Evros
Province: Orestiada
Municipality: Trigono
Municipal district: Arzos'
Number of subdivisions: 2
Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:
41.674 (41° 37' 30") N
26.3743 (26° 22' 32") E
Population: (2001)
-Village (change)
Municipal district
-Percent of the municipality
209 (-58 or -21/.72% from 1991)
433

%
Altitude: 
-lowest:
 -centre:		 about 70 m
49 m
about 40 m (west)
Postal code: GR-680 08
Car designation: EB

Arzos (Greek: Άρζος, Bulgarian: Кулакли Turkish and Bulgarian Romanization: Kulakli) also with the first a accented is a village in the northwestern part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece located west of Orestiada, far from Dikaia and 166 km north of Alexandroupoli. Arzos is also in the municipality of Trigono. Its 2001 population was 209 for the village and 433 for the municipal district.

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[edit] Subdivision

  • Kanada

[edit] Population

Year Village population Change Municipal district population Percent of the municipal district Percent of the municipality
1981 604 - - - -
1991 267 -337 or -55.79% - - -
2001 209 -58 or -21.72% 433 48.27 3.14% (village)
6.5% (municipal district)

[edit] History

Arzos was ruled by the Ottoman Empire until the Balkan Wars of 1913, instead of Greece, it joined Bulgaria since it was invaded by them and administered until the Greco-Turkish War which finally ceded to Greece mainly without any battles. During the Catastrophe, refugees arrived from the east and forms a majority of the population today. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, many of its buildings were rebuilt. Some of its residents moved to other parts of Greece and the world. Its population lost by about two thirds of the 1981 population that made the village lost the most population in Thrace. Much of the population left for larger towns and cities as well as its suburbs around Greece and other parts of the world. Arzos has a nearby tomb dating back to the 4th century BC.

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.

[edit] Other

Arzos has a school, church, banks, a post office, and a square (plateia), its nearest lyceum (middle school), a gymnasium (secondary school) is in Feres.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Municipal districts of the municipality of Trigono
Arzos (Kanada | Dikaia (Dilofos | Krios | Palli) | Elaia | Komara | Marasia | Milia | Ormenio | Pentalofos | Plati | Ptelea | Spilaio | Therapeio
Greece | Eastern Macedonia and Thrace | Thrace | Evros Prefecture | Alexandroupoli