Krios, Evros

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Krios
Κριός
Statistics
Country: Greece
Prefecture: Evros
Province: Didymoteicho
Municipality: Trigono
Municipal district: Dikaia
Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:
41.702 (41° 42') N
26.387 (26° 23') E
Population: (2001)
-Settlement (Change)
-Percent of the municipal district
-Percent of the municipality
53 (-60 or -53.1% from 1991)
4.2%
7.96%
Altitude: 
-lowest:
 -centre:		 about 60 m
80 m
about 85 m
Postal code: GR-680 01
Car designation: EB

Krios (Greek: Κριός), accented form: Kriós is a village in the municipality of Vyssa in the northern part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece. Krios are connected with two roads connecting the GR-51 (Alexandroupoli - Orestiada - Nea Vyssa - Ormenio). The area are flat. Agriculture is its main industry.

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[edit] Location

Krios is located about 5 to 6 km southwest of the Turkish border and about 20 km west of Edirne, north of Orestiada, north-northeast of Alexandroupoli and about 1,040 km northeast of Athens (old: 1,015 km) and east-southeast of Ormenio, the Bulgarian border and Svilengrad.

[edit] Nearest place

[edit] Population

Year Village population Change Percent of the municipal district Percent of the municipality
1991 113 - - -
2001 53 -60 or -53.1% 4.5% 7.96%

[edit] History

Its name during the Ottoman rule was known as Kuyorlı (Куюрли Kuyorli in Bulgarian). It was annexed to Greece in 1920. During the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922), refugees east of the Evros river and from Asia Minor rarely arrived into the village. It became entirely Dilofos after the annexation. 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. The village's lost by over a half between 1991 and 2001, its inhabitants left for the larger cities and outside Greece.

[edit] Other

Krios has a church, banks, and a square (plateia). Its nearest school, gymnasium (middle school) and lyceum (secondary school) are in Dikaia.

[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