Ptelea, Evros

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Ptelea
Πτελέα
Statistics
Country: Greece
Prefecture: Evros
Province: Orestiada
Municipality: Trigono
Municipal district: Ptelea
Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:
41.799 (41° 41' 59") N
26.2063 (26° 14' 24") E
Population: (2001)
-Village (change)
Municipal district
-Percent of the municipality
477 (-92 or -19.29% from 1991)
11.63%
Altitude: 
-lowest:
 -centre:		 Evros (about 90 m)
100 m
about 130 m (northwest)
Postal code: GR-680 06
Car designation: EB

Ptelea (Greek: Πτελέα) also with the second a accented is a village in the northwestern part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece located west of Turkey and Edirne, southeast of Ormenio and Svilengrad, Bulgaria, north of Alexandroupoli and east of Kurdzhali, Bulgaria, Athens, the Greek capital is nearly 1,100 km northeast. Ptelea is linked with the GR-51/E85 (Alexandroupoli - Soufli - Orestiada - Ormeni). Komara is also in the municipality of Trigono. Its 2001 population was 477 for the village. The Evros river is flowed to the north which form its border with Bulgaria to the north. The name of the town was known as Karagatsoudi (Καραγατσούδι) and El-Karakas (Ελ-Καράκας), its Turkish name was Karaagaç and its Bulgarian name was Караагач, the only name that is known by Karaagaç is to the east on the other side of Edirne.

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[edit] Nearest places

[edit] Population

Year Village population Change Percent of the municipality
1950s 1,000 - -
1981 660 -about 500 or -40 to -45% -
1991 569 -91 or -13.79% -
2001 477 -92 or -19.29% 7.17%

[edit] History

Ptelea was founded in 1924 by refugees from Eastern Thrace. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, many of its buildings were rebuilt. In 1997 under the Capodistrian Plan, the community of Ptelea 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] Other

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

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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