Thourio, Greece

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Θούριο |----- ! align="center" colspan="2" | Statistics |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Country: || Greece |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Prefecture: || Evros |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Province: || Orestiada |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Municipality: || Orestiada |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Municipal district: || Thourio' |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top" | Location:
Latitude:
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41.4285 (41° 25' 48") N
26.563 (26° 33' 44") E |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Population: (2001)
-Place (change)
--Percent of the municipality||
706 (-16 or -2.26% from 1991)
3.2595% |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Altitude:
-lowest:
-centre:||about 50 m
30 m
about 15 m (west) |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Postal code: || GR-680 08 |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Car designation: || EB|---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Website: || www.thourio.gr |}

Thourio (Greek, Modern: Θούριο), older form: -on is a village in the northwestern part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece located between Orestiada and Didymoteicho] Thourio is in the municipality of Orestiada. Thourio is located south of Orestiada and Edirne, Turkey, west of Orestiada, west of the border with Turkey, north of Didymoteicho northeast of Soufli and north-northeast of Alexandroupoli. The Evros River is kilometres to the east.

1 Nearest places
2 Population
3 History
4 Other
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Nearest places

Asimeni, south
Karoti, southwest
Neos Pyrgos, northwest
Orestiada, north

[edit] Population

Year	Village population	Change	Percent of the municipality
1981	2,245	-	-
1991	722	-1,523 or -67.8%	-
2001	706	-16 or -22.16%	3.25%

[edit] History

Thourio was ruled by the Ottoman Empire until the Balkan Wars of 1913, instead of Greece, it joined Bulgaria since it was invaded by them and administered until the Greco-Turkish War which finally ceded to Greece mainly without any battles. During the Catastrophe, refugees arrived from the east and forms a majority of the population today. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, many of its buildings were rebuilt. Some of its residents moved to other parts of Greece and the world. Its population lose by about two thirds of the 1981 population that made the village lost the most population in Thrace. Much of the population left for larger towns and cities as well as its suburbs around Greece and other parts of the world.

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

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