Avas, Greece

Avas or Avantas (Greek, modern: Άβαντας, katharevousa: Άβας, Turkish: Dervent) is a village in the southern part of the Evros regional unit, Greece. Avantas is located 10 km north of Alexandroupoli. It is on the Greek National Road 53 (Alexandroupoli - Mikro Dereio - Ormenio), between Alexandroupoli to the south and Aisymi to the north. In 2001 its population was 497.

Population

History

The village was founded by the Ottoman Turks. Its inhabitants were 3/4 Bulgarian and 1/4 Turkish before the Balkan Wars and the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922). According to professor Lyubomir Miletich, the 1912 population contained 320 exarchist Bulgarian families.^[1] Refugees from east of the Evros river and from Asia Minor arrived into the village. Its name was changed from the Turkish Dervent to the current Avas.

People

• Mitro Karabeljata, Revolutionary leader and strategist of Tane Nikolov

See also

• List of places in the Evros prefecture

References

1. ^ Любомиръ Милетич. Разорението на тракийскитe българи през 1913 година, Българска Академия на Науките, София, Държавна Печатница, 1918, стр.295.</]

External links

• Avas or Avantas on GTP Travel Pages