Nea Vyssa

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Nea Vyssa or Nea Vissa
Νέα Βύσσα
Statistics
Country: Greece
Prefecture: Evros
Province: Didymoteicho
Municipality: Vyssa
Municipal district: Nea Vyssa (seat)
Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:
40.584 (40° 25' 1") N
26.527 (26° 32' 43") E
Population: (2001)
-Village (Change)
-Percent of the municipality
2,844 (-458 or -13.87% from 1991)
34.75%
Altitude: 
-lowest:
 -centre:		 Evros
30 m
about 35 m (north)
Postal code: GR-680 01
Car designation: EB

Nea Vyssa, also Nea Vissa, Nea Vysa and Nea Visa (Greek: Νέα Βύσσα), also with the first o accented is a village in the southern part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece, it serves the seat of the municipality of Vyssa since the late 1990s. Nea Vyssa is connected with two roads connecting the GR-51 (Alexandroupoli - Orestiata - Nea Vyssa - Ormenio) and has a branch road with Edirne in Turkey Its 2001 population was 545 for the settlement and 1,120 for the municipal district. The area are flat, its OSE's Alexandroupoli - Kastanies line is nearly 1 km to the west

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[edit] Location

Nea Vyssa is located southwest of the Turkish border and about 10 km southwest of Edirne, north of Orestiada, north-northeast of Alexandroupoli and about 1,010 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 municipality
1981 3,935 - -
1991 3,302 -733 or -18.63% -
2001 2,844 -458 or -13.87% 34.75%

[edit] History

The origin of the name dates back to the ancient times as a warriors of Vissa. Older homes were built with a stylistic kind. The family of Konstantinos Karatheodoris were descended from Vosnochori.

Its name during the Ottoman rule was known as Ahorkoy, Ahorkoj or the same (Ахоркьой) in Bulgarian). It was annexed to Greece between 1912 and 1920, it was in the line where it had the Greek population prior to the annexation. During the Greco Turkish War (1919-1922), refugees east of the Evros river and from Asia Minor rarely arrived into the village. Vyssa (now Bosna) was reconquered by the Turks along with Sideropetra (Demirtaş), its residents moved into what it became Nea Vyssa. It became entirely Achyrochori (Αχυροχώρι) and later Nea Vyssa 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] Other

Nea Vyssa has a school, a gymnasium (middle school) church, banks, a train station, a post office, and a square (plateia). Its nearest lyceum (secondary school) is in Nea Vyssa.

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Municipal districts of the city of Vyssa
Kastanies | Kavyli | Nea Vyssa | Rizia | Sterna
Greece | Eastern Macedonia and Thrace | Thrace | Evros Prefecture | Alexandroupoli
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