Asvestades

Periphery: East Macedonia and Thrace
Prefecture : Evros

Evros

Municipality Didymoteicho

Asvestades (Greek: Ασβεστάδες) is a village in the municipality of Didymoteicho in the northern part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece and is just 14 km west of the centre on the GR-51 (Alexandroupoli - Orestiada - Nea Vyssa - Ormenio) and Mavrokklisi and connects a road also connecting Metaxades and Kyprinos. The frontiers of the municipalities of Orestiada lie to the north, Metaxades to the west and Kyprinos to the northwest.

Location

Asvestades is also located 65 km south of Edirne, 15 km west km west of the Evros and the Turkish border, north-northeast of Alexandroupoli and about 950 km northeast of Athens.

Nearest places

* Kyani, northeast
* Koufovouno, east
* Amorio, southeast
* Kissari, ESE
* Lavara, south
* Mandra, SSE
* Mavrokklisi, west
* Vryssika, north

Population
Year Population
1991 367
2001 302

History

It was known as "Kireççiler" during Ottoman rule. It was annexed to Greece in 1920. 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.

References

1. ^ "Δείτε τη Διοικητική Διαίρεση" (in Greek). Hellenic Interior Ministry. www.ypes.gr. http://www.ypes.gr/UserFiles/f0ff9297-f516-40ff-a70e-eca84e2ec9b9/D_diairesi.xls. Retrieved 2009-09-09.

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