Administrative Region : East Macedonia and Thrace
Regional unit : Evros
Melia (Μελία) Evros
Melia is a semi-mountainous village of Thrace in the Evros Regional Unit at an altitude of 160 meters[1].
Geographical data - sights
Melia is located towards the border of Greece with Turkey, at a distance of 28 km. NE. of Alexandroupoli and 24 km. W. of the Kipon border station. To the south passes the Egnatia Motorway while to the west and south of the village begins the "Southern Evros Forest Complex" which has been recognized as a Natura2000 Biotope and is characterized by low hills covered by forests with oak, pine and reforestation[2][3]. Southeast of the village there are six windmills from the pre-industrial era that were in operation until the population exchange of 1925. Since 2000, through the European INTERREG program, four of them have been restored and the surrounding area has been transformed into a recreational area.[4] A religious attraction is the post-Byzantine church of Prophet Elias in the center of the village. It is believed that it was built in 1804 and its main feature is the twenty-one shallow blind domes arranged in three aisles.[5]
Administrative - population data
It is officially mentioned as a settlement, after the liberation, in 1924 in the Government Gazette 194A-14/08/1924, annexing it to the then community of Feres[6]. According to the Kallikrates Plan, administratively, together with Koila and Pylaia, it forms the municipal community of Pylaia, which belongs to the municipal unit of Feres of the Municipality of Alexandroupoli and according to the 2011 census has a population of 62 inhabitants[7]. The population censuses after World War II are:
Year Population
1951
1961 223[8]
1971 202[9]
1981 160[10]
1991 115[11]
2001 93[12]
2011 62
External links
Feres Melia Windmills at https://www.youtube.com/
References
Encyclopedia Nea Domii. Tegopoulos - Maniateas. 1996. p. 300, vol. 21.
«NatureBank - NATURA Biotope - OREINOS EVROS - KOILADA DEREIOU». filotis.itia.ntua.gr. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
votaniki (15 January 2019). «Southern forest complex of Evros (GR1110009)». Botany (in English). Retrieved 30 March 2020.
«OUR PLACE!!! Melia Feron The beautiful village with the windmills (video+photo)». EVROS NEWS. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
«Melia – Municipality of Alexandroupolis». Retrieved 30 March 2020.[dead link]
«Administrative Changes of Settlements». EETAA. Retrieved on 30 March 2020.
"Official Gazette of the results of the 2011 PERMANENT population census", p. 10488 (p. 14 of the pdf)
Population of Greece at the census of 19 March 1961, p. 58 of the pdf.
Population of Greece at the census of 14 March 1971, p. 59 of the pdf.
Actual population of Greece at the census of 5 April 1981, p. 69 of the pdf.
Actual population of Greece at the census of 17 March 1991, p. 73 of the pdf.
Actual population of Greece - Census 2001, p. 77 of the pdf.
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| Melia (Μελία, η) |
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