Melia, Evros

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Melia Μελία
Location
Melia, Evros
Coordinates	40°57′N 26°6′E / 40.95°N 26.1°E / 40.95; 26.1Coordinates: 40°57′N 26°6′E / 40.95°N 26.1°E / 40.95; 26.1
Government
Country:	Greece
Periphery:	East Macedonia and Thrace
Prefecture:	Evros
Municipality:	Feres
Population statistics (as of 2001[1])
Village
- Population:	93
Other
Time zone:	EET/EEST (UTC+2/3)
Auto:	EB

Melia (Greek: Μελία) is a village in the municipality of Feres, in the Evros Prefecture, northeastern Greece. Melia is located 5 km northwest of Pylaia and 7 km north of Feres. Its 2001 population was 93. Melia is located south-southwest of Soufli, west of the Turkish border, 5 km northwest of Pylaia, 7 km north of Feres and northeast of Alexandroupoli.

Contents 1 Nearest places 2 Population 3 History 4 See also 5 External links 6 References

[edit] Nearest places

• Pylaia, southeast

[edit] Population

Year	Population
1950	about 200
1991	115
2001	93

[edit] History

Melia was ruled by the Ottoman Empire until the Balkan Wars of 1913, instead of Greece, it joined Bulgaria since it was invaded by them and administered until the Greco-Turkish War which finally ceded to Greece mainly without any battles. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, many of its buildings were rebuilt. Some of its residents moved to other parts of Greece and the world. The population dramatically lost between 1981 and 2001.

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.

[edit] See also

• List of settlements in the Evros prefecture

[edit] External links

• Melia on GTP Travel Pages

[edit] References

Municipal districts of the municipality of Feres
Ardani | Doriskos (Monastiraki) | Feres | Kavissos | Peplos (Gemisti | Kipoi | Vrysoula) | Pylaia (Koila | Melia) | Trifylli (Itea)
Greece | Eastern Macedonia and Thrace | Thrace | Evros Prefecture | Feres