Municipality of Alexandroupoli

Municipality of Alexandroupoli, Evros Regional Unit, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
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Battle of Merhamli (Q12273299)
item type: battle
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Battle of Merhamli was part of the First Balkan War between the armies of Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire which took place on 14/27 November 1912. After a long chase throughout Western Thrace the Bulgarian troops led by General Nikola Genev and Colonel Aleksandar Tanev surrounded the 10,000-strong Kırcaali Detachment under the command of Mehmed Yaver Pasha. Attacked in the surrounding of the village Merhamli (Now Peplos in modern Greece), only a few of the Ottomans managed to cross the Maritsa River. The rest surrendered in the following day on 28 November.

Kila (Q16322788)
item type: village
Summary from Ελληνικά / Modern Greek Wikipedia (elwiki)

Τα Κοίλα είναι οικισμός στη Θράκη και την Περιφερειακή Ενότητα Έβρου.

Rhodope (Q2528747)
item type: Roman province
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Rhodope (Greek: Ῥοδόπη) was a late Roman and early Byzantine province, situated on the northern Aegean coast. A part of the Diocese of Thrace, it extended along the Rhodope Mountains range, covering parts of modern Western Thrace (in Greece) and south-western Bulgaria. The province was headed by a governor of the rank of praeses, with Trajanopolis as the provincial capital. According to the 6th-century Synecdemus, there were six further cities in the province, Maroneia, Maximianopolis, Nicopolis, Kereopyrgos (unknown location) and Topeiros (mod. Toxotai in Greece).

Evrenos Bey Han (Q12885957)
item type: caravanserai
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Evrenos Bey Han, also known as the Hana of Trajanopolis (Greek: Χάνα της Τραϊανούπολης; Turkish: Kara Ilıca’daki Hanı) or just Hana is a caravanserai (han) in northern Greece, and one of the oldest Ottoman monuments in the Balkans. It was built in 1370–90 by Gazi Ahmet Evrenos and is located in the Trajanopolis Baths, just twelve kilometers to the northeast of Alexandroupolis. The monument is a long, rectangular building with external dimensions of 38.8 by 13 metres (127 ft × 43 ft).

Feres railway station (Q18337799)
item type: railway station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Feres railway station (Greek: Σιδηροδρομικός Σταθμός Φερών, romanized: Sidirodromikós stathmós Ferón) is a railway station that serves the town of Feres, Evros in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Located 1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi) west of the town centre, the station opened in 1896 by the Chemins de fer Orientaux, (now part of OSE). Today Hellenic Train operates just 4 daily Regional trains to Alexandroupoli and Ormenio. The station is unstaffed however there are waiting rooms available, if open. Feres is the first stop after Alexandroupolis, as the railway heads north.

website: https://ose.gr/en/home/

Theotokos Kosmosoteira (Q96962495)
item type: church building / monastery / hospital
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Theotokos Kosmosoteira (Greek: Θεοτόκος η Κοσμοσώτειρα, lit. 'Theotokos the World-Saviour') is a Greek Orthodox church in Feres, Evros, in the Western Thrace region of Greece. It was built as a monastery in c. 1152 by the sebastokrator Isaac Komnenos, a son of the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos. The monastery became the core of the settlement of Feres, but is last attested in the mid-14th century. By the 15th-century, during the Ottoman era, the complex was a mosque; and it was reconsecrated as a church in 1940, administered by the Metropolis of Alexandroupolis.

This item might be defunct. The English Wikipedia article is in these categories: Former Christian monasteries in Greece, Former mosques in Greece
Pefka (Q12299043)
item type: village
Summary from Ελληνικά / Modern Greek Wikipedia (elwiki)

Τα Πεύκα είναι οικισμός της Θράκης στην Περιφερειακή Ενότητα Έβρου.

website: http://www.santasmotos.gr/

Nymfón (Q65241523)
item type: lake
Summary from Ελληνικά / Modern Greek Wikipedia (elwiki)

Sképi (Q65244559)
item type: lake
Summary from Ελληνικά / Modern Greek Wikipedia (elwiki)

Alexandroupolis Mosque (Q115804913)
item type: mosque
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Alexandroupolis Mosque, also known as the Mosque of Alexandroupolis (Greek: Τζαμί Αλεξανδρούπολης; Turkish: Dedeağaç Camii), is a mosque on Kassandras Street, in the town of Alexandroupolis, in Evros, in the Eastern Macedonia and Thrace region of Greece. Completed in 1906 during the Ottoman era, the mosque serves the small Muslim community of the town.

Alexandroupolis–Svilengrad railway (Q18335671)
item type: railway line
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Alexandroupolis–Svilengrad railway (Greek: Σιδηροδρομική γραμμή Αλεξανδρούπολης - Σβίλενγκραντ, romanized: Sidiródromos Alexandroúpolis-Svílen'nkrant) is a 178.5-kilometre (110.9 mi) long railway connecting the port of Alexandroupolis in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Greece with Svilengrad in Bulgaria, via the village of Ormenio. Despite its name, as of 2020 there is only passenger service on the section on Greek territory, between Alexandroupolis and Ormenio, as the international services to Sofia (via Svilengrad) and Istanbul ("Friendship Express") have been suspended as of 2011.

Drys (Q5309800)
item type: polis / ancient city
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Drys (Ancient Greek: Δρῦς) was an ancient Greek town of ancient Thrace.

This item might be defunct. The English Wikipedia article is in these categories: Former populated places in Greece
Orthagoria (Q7104375)
item type: polis / ancient city
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Orthagoria (Ancient Greek: Ὀρθαγορία) or Orthagoreia (Ὀρθαγορεία) was an ancient Greek town of ancient Thrace, located on the coast of the Aegean Sea. Pliny the Elder says Ortagurea (perhaps the same as Orthagoria) was the old name of Maroneia, but Strabo places both cities successively in the Thracian region. Some have suggested that Orthagoria was the ancient name of Stageira.

This item might be defunct. The English Wikipedia article is in these categories: Former populated places in Greece
Sale (Q7403795)
item type: polis / ancient city
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Sale (Ancient Greek: Σάλη, Sálē) was a Greek city located on the south coast of ancient Thrace, near the west mouth of the Hebrus, and nearly equidistant from Zone and Doriscus, thus between the river Nestos and the Hebrus.

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Zone (Q8073895)
item type: polis / Greek colony
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Zone (Ancient Greek: Ζώνη) was an ancient Greek polis on the Aegean coast of ancient Thrace on a promontory of the same name, a short distance to the west of the entrance of the Lacus Stentoris.

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Sanctuary of Demeter Zone (Q16328212)
item type: hieron
Summary from Ελληνικά / Modern Greek Wikipedia (elwiki)

Το Ιερό Θεάς Δήμητρος Ζώνης, ήταν υπαίθριο ιερό με βωμούς, που η ανέγερσή του χρονολογείται κατά τον 6ο αιώνα στην Αρχαία Θράκη. Το ιερό βρίσκεται στην περιοχή της Μεσημβρίας-Ζώνης.

Iana (Q10825474)
item type: village
Summary from Български език / Bulgarian Wikipedia (bgwiki)

Еникьой, още Джедидкьой, Кьосмеджид или Кюсмеджит (на гръцки: Ιάνα, Яна), е бивше българско село в Западна Тракия, Гърция в дем Дедеагач.