Ormenio

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Ormenio Ορμένιο
Statistics
Country:	Greece
Prefecture:	Evros
Province:	Orestiada
Municipality:	Trigono
Municipal district:	Ormenio
Location: Latitude: Longitude:	41.7173 (41° 43' 8") N 26.2015 (26° 12' 49") E
Population: (2001) -Village (change) Municipal district -Percent of the municipality	807 (-60 or -7.43% from 1991) 12.12%
Altitude:  -lowest:  -centre:	Evros (about 40 m) 60 m about 110 m (west)
Postal code:	GR-680 06
Car designation:	EB

Ormenio (Greek: Ορμένιο), older form: -on also with the e accented is the northernmost place in all of Greece, it is located in the municipality of Trigono and the Evros Prefecture. The Bulgarian border is to the north. Ormenio is located west-northwest of Orestiada, about 200 km north of Alexandroupoli, about 40 km west of Edirne, Turkey and southeast of Svilengrad. The population are mainly of mixed ancestry. Ormenio is linked with the GR-51/E85 (Alexandroupoli - Soufli - Orestiada - Ormeni) and by the customs is the northernmost terminus of the highway but not for the E85 connecting with a highway to Svilengrad and Varna in Bulgaria and also connects with the A1 superhighway linking Sofia and Edirne with the Ö2 superhighway (both are E80). The Evros river is flowed to the north, the land boundary is to the northwest.

Contents 1 Nearest places 2 Population 3 History 4 Person 5 Other 6 Footnotes 7 See also

[edit] Nearest places

• Ptelea, east-southeast
• Plati, south
• Svilengrad, Bulgaria, north-northwest

[edit] Population

Year	Village population	Change	Percent of the municipality
1871	990	-	-
1981	846	-	-
1991	967	+121 or +14.30%	-
2001	807	-60 or 7.43%	12.12%

[edit] History

In 1371 it was the site of the battle of Chernomen in which the Christian Bulgarian-Serb army under Ivan Uglesha and Valkashin was decisively defeated by the Turks. In 1878 it was inhabited by 870 Bulgarians and 120 Muslims.^[1] After the Ottoman Rule, the village was annexed to Bulgaria and was a part of the southeastern portion until 1919, when the village was ceded to Greece and separated from Bulgaria and became a border town with a border to the north. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, many of its buildings were rebuilt. In 1997 under the Capodistrian Plan, the community of Ormenio became the new municipality of Trigono with 16 other former communities.

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] Person

• Atanos Slavov (1860-1924), lived in Burgas

[edit] Other

Ormenio has a school, church, banks, a post office, and a square (plateia), its nearest lyceum (middle school), a gymnasium (secondary school) is in Kyprinos.

[edit] Footnotes

[edit] See also

• List of settlements in the Evros prefecture
• Ormenio on GTP Travel Pages
• Map and aerial photos:
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  • Satellite images: Google or Microsoft Virtual Earth - image now available
• Coordinates: 41°43′8″N 26°12′49″E / 41.71889, 26.21361Coordinates: 41°43′8″N 26°12′49″E / 41.71889, 26.21361