Ellinochori, Evros

Community in Greece

Ellinochori Ελληνοχώρι
Community
41°22′N 26°28′E / 41.367°N 26.467°E / 41.367; 26.467
Country	Greece
Administrative region	East Macedonia and Thrace
Regional unit	Evros
Municipality	Didymoteicho
Municipal unit	Didymoteicho
Population (2021)^[1]
• Community	1,060
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Ellinochori (Greek: Ελληνοχώρι meaning Greek village; formerly Βουλγάρκιοϊ,^[2] Bulgarian: Булгаркьой or Балъ Булгаркьой, Turkish: Bulgarkoj or Balı-Bulgarköy, Bulgarian village) is a village in the northeastern part of the Evros regional unit in Greece. Ellinochori is part of the municipality of Didymoteicho. It is situated on the left bank of the river Erythropotamos, northwest of the centre of Didymoteicho. In 2021 its population was 1,060 for the community, including the villages Lagos and Thyrea.

Population

Year	Population village	Population community
1981	1,435	-
1991	854	-
2001	756	2,372
2011	593	1,373
2021	506	1,060

History

The village was founded by the Ottoman Turks and named after its mostly Bulgarian population.^[3] It was ceded to Bulgaria in 1915^[4] along with the rest of the lower Evros (Maritsa) valley, but following the 1919 Treaty of Neuilly it became part of Greece. As a result its Bulgarian and Turkish population was exchanged with Greek refugees, mainly from today's Turkey.

People

Michalos Garoudis (b. 1940)
Panagiotis Goutzimisis (b. 1941)

References

^ "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
^ Old names of the villages of Didymoteicho Archived 2016-03-17 at the Wayback Machine
^ Ethnographie des Vilayets d'Andrinople, de Monastir et de Salonique, 1878, reprint in Bulgarian: „Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 г.“ Македонски научен институт, София, 1995, стр. 54-55
^ World War I: A - D.: Volume 1; 2005; p.241