Rizia

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Rizia
Ρίζια
Statistics
Country: Greece
Prefecture: Evros
Province: Didymoteicho
Municipality: Vyssa
Municipal district: Rizia (seat)
Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:
41.621 (41° 37' 17") N
26.4252 (26° 25' 34") E
Population: (2001)
-Village (Change)
-Percent of the municipality
1,684 (-81 or -4.59 from 1991)
20.58%
Altitude: 
-lowest:
 -centre:		 Evros
52 m
about 40 m (north)
Postal code: GR-680 01
Car designation: EB

Rizia (Greek: Ρίζια), also with the first oi accented is a village in the municipality of Vyssa in the northern part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece. Rizia is connected with two roads connecting the GR-51 (Alexandroupoli - Orestiata - Nea Vyssa - Ormenio). The area are flat. The Arda River flows to the north.

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[edit] Location

Rizia is located about 5 km southwest of the Turkish border and about 15 km southwest of Edirne, north of Orestiada, north-northeast of Alexandroupoli and about 1,015 km northeast of Athens (old: 1,015 km) and east-southeast of Ormenio, the Bulgarian border and Svilengrad.

[edit] Nearest place

  • Kastanies, northeast (distance: 3 km)
  • Kavyli, south (distance: 4 km)
  • Fylakio west (distance: 10 km)
  • Plati, northwest

[edit] Population

Year Village population Change Percent of the municipality
1981 1,900 - -
1991 1,765 -235 or 12.37% -
2001 1,684 -81 or -4.59% 20.58%

[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 Dujaros, or the same (Dudzharos, Дуджарос) in Bulgarian). It was annexed to Greece between 1912 and 1920, many of the Bulgarians were pushed northward. 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 Rizia 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

Rizia 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.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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