Mikro Dereio

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Mikro Dereio Μικρό Δέρειο
Statistics
Country:	Greece
Prefecture:	Evros
Province:	Didymoteicho
Municipality:	Orfeas
Municipal district:	Mikro Dereio (seat)
Location: Latitude: Longitude:	41.1016 (41° 6' 3") N 26.145 (26° 18' 50") E
Population: (2001) -Village (change) -Muncipal district -Percent of the municipal district -Percent of the municipality	252 (-16 or -2.91% from 1991) 2,103 11.98% 34.22%
Altitude:  -lowest:  -centre:	about 200 to 250 m 350 m about 1,000 m (west)
Postal code:	GR-680 05
Car designation:	EB

Mikro Dereio or Mikro Derio (Greek, Modern: Μικρό Δέρειο, Katharevoussa: ον -on, Little Dereio or Little Derio), older form: -on, also with the second o accented is a village in the northcentral part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece, its population ranking is the first as the municipal district more than the seat Lavara, in place population, it is before Korymvos and after Roussa other than the municipal district. Mikro Dereio is in the municipality of Orfeas. The location is near the heart of the prefectural mainland and is centrally located between the Bulgarian and the Turkish borders as well as the Evros River. Protokklisi is linked with the road connecting GR-51/E85 (Alexandroupoli - Soufli - Orestiada - Ormenio) and Mega Dereio with no road connecting Bulgaria or any trails, the trails are fenced. Its 2001 population was 545 for the settlement and 1,120 for the municipal district. The area are hilly and forested while the mountains dominate the west, most of the area are forested, farmlands are within the village.

Contents 1 Location 2 Settlement 3 Nearest place 4 Population 5 History 6 Person 7 Other 8 See also 9 External links

[edit] Location

It is in the Eastern Rhodope mountains, the Erythropotamos is 20 km northeast by the Bulgarian-Greek border. Mega Dereio is located about 90 km southwest of Orestiada, 65 km west-southwest of Didymoteicho, west-northwest of the Evros River and the Turkish border, 70 km north of Alexandroupoli, northeast of the Greek capital city of Athens and east-southeast of the Bulgarian border.

[edit] Settlement

• Agriani

[edit] Nearest place

• Mega Dereio
• Amorio, east-southeast (distance: 7 km)

[edit] Population

Year	Village population	Change	Municipal district population	Percent of the municipal district	Percent of the municipality
1878	256	-	Not existed at the time
1912	220	-34 or -13.81%	Not existed at the time
1920	180	-20 or -10%	Not existed at the time
1981	2,067	N/A	-	-	-
1991	296	N/A	-	-	-
2001	252	-44 or -14.86%	2,103	11.98%	4.1% (village) 34.22% (municipal district)

[edit] History

The village was founded by the Ottoman Turks in the 14th century, its name was known as (Малък Дервент Malyk Dervent, Turkish: Malik Dervent (Little-)). According to Anastas Razbojnikov, its 1830 population was 210 Bulgarian families/houses, 256 in 1878, 220 in 1912 of which 200 were Bulgarian exarchists, revoltions occurred during the pre-Bulgarian rule. According to professor Lyubomir Miletich, the 1912 population had around 200 Bulgarian families. In August 8, 1913, the village battled with the Turks and handed to the Bulgarians. At the end of the Bulgarian rule, 200 Bulgarians moved northward into the remainder of Bulgaria which is now north, the remainder of the Turks were pushed to the western portion of today's Turkey. During the Greco Turkish War (1919-1922), refugees east of the Evros river and from Asia Minor arrived into the village. It became entirely Mikro Dereio 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 three fourths of its population between 1981 and 1991 and two thirds between 1991 and 2001 totaling to nearly half between 1981 and 2001, its inhabitants left for the larger cities and outside Greece.

[edit] Person

• Angel Popkirov (Ангел Попкиров, 1881-?), Bulgarian revolutionary leader, member of VMORO

[edit] Other

Mega Dereio has a school, a gymnasium (middle school) church, banks, a post office, and a square (plateia). Its nearest lyceum (secondary school) is in Amori.

[edit] See also

• List of places in the Evros prefecture

[edit] External links

• Mega Dereio on GTP Travel Pages
• Mikro Dereio at liternet.bg
• Mikro Dereio at liternet.bg
• Mikro Dereio at liternet.bg
• Map and aerial photos:
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  • Satellite images: Google or Microsoft Virtual Earth - image now available
• Coordinates: 41°6′3″N 26°18′50″E / 41.10083, 26.31389Coordinates: 41°6′3″N 26°18′50″E / 41.10083, 26.31389