Melia, Evros

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Melia
Μελία
Statistics
Country: Greece
Prefecture: Evros
Province: N/A
Municipality: Alexandroupoli
Municipal district: Pylaia
Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:
40.9667(40° 58") N
25.1833 (25° 11") E
Population: (2001)
-Settlement (change)
-Percent of the municipal district
-Percent of the city
93 -22 or -19.13% from 1991)
40.26%
0.95%
Altitude: 
-lowest:
 -centre:		 about 90 m
160 m
about 300 to 400 m (west)
Postal code: GR-685 00
Car designation: EB

Melia (Greek: Μελία) is a village in the northern part of the city of Alexandroupoli, Greece, west of the metropolitan area and 20 km west of downtown. Melia is located 5 km northwest of Pylaia and 7 km north of Feres. Its 2001 population was 95 for the settlement. Melia is located south-southwest of Soufli, west of the Turkish border, 5 km northwest of Pylaia, 7 km north of Feres and northeast of Alexandroupoli.

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[edit] Nearest places

  • Pylaia, southeast

[edit] Population

Year Settlement population Change Percent of the municipal district Percent of the municipality
1950 about 200 - - -
1991 115 -about 85 or -40% - -
2001 93 -22 or -19.13% 40.26% 0.95%

[edit] History

Melia 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. 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. The population dramatically lost between 1981 and 2001.

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

Melia 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 Feres
Ardani | Doriskos (Monastiraki) | Feres | Kavissos | Peplos (Gemisti | Kipoi | Vrysoula) | Pylaia (Koila | Melia) | Trifylli (Itea)
Greece | Eastern Macedonia and Thrace | Thrace | Evros Prefecture | Feres
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