| Trigono Τρίγωνο |
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Trigono
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| Country: | Greece |
| Region: | East Macedonia and Thrace |
| Regional unit: | Evros |
| Municipality: | Orestiada |
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| - Population: | 6,656 |
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| Time zone: | EET/EEST (UTC+2/3) |
| Auto: | EB |
Trígono (Greek: Τρίγωνο, [ˈtriɣono], formerly Τρίγωνον, Trígōnon, meaning "triangle") is a former municipality in the Evros regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Orestiada, of which it is a municipal unit.[1] Its population is 6,656 (2001 census). The seat of the municipality was in Dikaia. Its area is 392.538 km². It is the country's northernmost municipal unit. It borders Bulgaria to the north and Turkey to the northeast, one of the municipalities bordered in Bulgaria is Svilengrad. The municipality was created in 1997 under the Capodistrian Plan. It is nicknamed the Mesopotamia of Evros which has the Arda river, all of the villages are north of the river. Much of its geography are situated in a plain that stretches to the Bosporus in Turkey, the hills dominate the western portions with lower ones in the centre.
Its seal is the northern portion of Evros with a blue in the middle and village names along with its forests in the middle. It has the Greek names Βουλγαρία ("Bulgaria") and Τουρκία ("Turkey") at the top in which it borders. The seal is bilingual in Greek and English.
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The area of Trigono was under Ottoman Turkish rule until the Balkan Wars, after, it ceded to Bulgaria and remain for the next seven years and finally joined the rest of Greece. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, its buildings were rebuilt. Many of the houses were stone-built until the 1960s. Electricity arrived in the same decade. Vehicles arrived in the 1970s, the pavement of the main road and television arrived in the 1980s and computers and the Internet in the 1990s.
The municipal unit Trigono is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets):
| Year | Municipality population |
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| 1991 | 8,706 |
| 2001 | 6,656 |
| North: Bulgaria (along with Svilengrad) | Northeast: Turkey (along ith Edirne) | |
| West: Bulgaria |
Trigono | East: Turkey (along with Edirne) |
| South: Kyprinos | Southeast: Vyssa |
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