Metaxades

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For the village in the Evrytania prefecture, see Metaxades, Evrytania

Municipality of Metaxades
Δήμος Μεταξάδων
Dimos Metaxadon
Statistics
Prefecture: Evros
Province: Didymoteicho
Seat: Kyprinos
Number of municipal districts: 7 (see below)
Founded: 1834
Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:
41.419 (41° 25' 6") N
26.224 (26° 13' 30") E
Area: 51 km²
Population: (2001)
-Municipality
-Percent of the municipality
-Percent of the prefecture
874 (-252 or -28.83%)
914
95.63%
19.48%
4,486
3%
87.96/km²
Altitude:
 -lowest:
 -centre:
Arda
116 m
western part
Postal code: GR-680 10
Car designation (as of 2006): EB
Website: www.mnmetaxades.evros.gr

Metaxades (Greek: Μεταξάδες) is a town and a municipality in the Evros Prefecture, Greece. Its 2001 population was 874 for the village, 914 for the municipal district and 4,486 for the municipality. Bulgaria is bordered to the west.

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[edit] Location

Metaxades is located south of Kyprinos and Ormenio, the country's second northernmost town, southwest of Orestiada and Edirne, Turkey, west-northwest of Didymoteicho, northwest of Soufli north of Alexandroupoli, northeast of Athens and east of Bulgaria.

[edit] Settlement

  • Avdella

[edit] Municipal districts

  • Alepochori
    • Polia
  • Asproneri
    • Giatrades
  • Vryssika
    • Savra
  • Doxa
  • Elafochori
    • Chionades
    • Vryssi
  • Ladi
  • Paliouri

[edit] Population

Year Town population Change Municipal district population Percent of the municipal district Percent of the municipality Municipal population Percent of the prefecture
1981 1,336 - - - - -
1991 1,026 -310 or -23.2% - - - -
2001 874 -252 or -28.83% 914 95.62% 19.48% (town)
20.37% (municipal district)		 4,486 3%

[edit] About Metaxades

Metaxades are connected with roads connecting Mega Dereio and Kyprinos and another to Didymoteicho. It has two access to the GR-51/E85 (Alexandorupoli - Didymoteicho - Ormenio) 25 to 40 km apart.

The Thracian Plain and the Evros valley dominates the eastern portion, the mountains are to the west by the Bulgarian border. Its main economy is agriculture and cattle, fruits, vegetables (e.g. tomatoes, potatoes, watermelon, cucumbers), olives, and other crops makes up the main production. Its population lost by half between the 1981 and 2001 censuses.

[edit] History

It became entirely Metaxades after the annexation from Bulgaria in 1920, refugees arrived from Eastern Thrace and Asia Minor after the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922). 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 three fourths of its population between 1981 and 1991 and two thirds between 1991 and 2001 totaling to four fifths between 1981 and 2001, its inhabitants left for the larger cities and outside Greece.

[edit] Other

Metaxades has a school, a lyceum (middle school), agymnasium (secondary school), a church, banks, a post office, and a square (plateia). Its nearest hospital is in Alexandroupoli since the late-1990s and its university is the Democritus University of Thrace in Komotini.

[edit] External links

North: Kyprinos Northeast: Orestiada
West: Bulgaria
 Metaxades East: Didymoteicho
South: Orfeas
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