Palli, Evros

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Palli or Pali
Πάλλη
Statistics
Country: Greece
Prefecture: Evros
Province: Didymoteicho
Municipality: Trigono
Municipal district: Dikaia
Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:
41.702 (41° 42') N
26.387 (26° 23') E
Population: (2001)
-Settlement (Change)
-Percent of the municipal district
-Percent of the municipality
246 (-39 or 13.68% from 1991)
20.9%
3.7%
Altitude: 
-lowest:
 -centre:		 about 40 m
30 m
about 28 m
Postal code: GR-680 01
Car designation: EB

Palli or Pali (Greek: Πάλλη), accented form: Kriós is a village in the municipality of Vyssa in the northern part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece. Krios are connected with two roads connecting the GR-51 (Alexandroupoli - Orestiada - Nea Vyssa - Ormenio). The area are flat. Agriculture is its main industry.

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[edit] Location

Pali is located about 4 km southwest of Dikaia, 8 to 10 km southwest of the Turkish border and about 25 km west of Edirne, north of Orestiada, north-northeast of Alexandroupoli and about 1,045 km northeast of Athens and east-southeast of Ormenio, the Bulgarian border and Svilengrad.

[edit] Nearest place

[edit] Population

Year Village population Change Percent of the municipal district Percent of the municipality
1991 285 - - -
2001 246 -39 or -13.68% 20.9% 3.7%

[edit] History

Its name during the Ottoman rule was known as Bëldërkoy (Бюлдюркьой Byoldyorkoy in Bulgarian, from bëldër and koy - village). It was annexed to Greece in 1920. During the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922), refugees east of the Evros river and from Asia Minor rarely arrived into the village. It became entirely Pali 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 decline in population was several in the prefecture that did not lost as much, it lost by 10% between 1991 and 2001.

[edit] Other

Pali has a church, banks, and a square (plateia). Its school, gymnasium (middle school) and lyceum (secondary school) are in Dikaia.

[edit] See also

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Municipal districts of the municipality of Trigono
Arzos (Kanada | Dikaia (Dilofos | Krios | Palli) | Elaia | Komara | Marasia | Milia | Ormenio | Pentalofos | Plati | Ptelea | Spilaio | Therapeio
Greece | Eastern Macedonia and Thrace | Thrace | Evros Prefecture | Alexandroupoli