Administrative Region : East Macedonia and Thrace
Regional unit : Evros
Mesti (Μέστη) Evros
Mesti is a lowland village in the Evros regional unit at an altitude of 110 meters[2].
Geographical - historical data
Mesti is located on the border with the Rodopi regional unit, 32 kilometers NW. of Alexandroupoli and 30 kilometers SE. of Komotini. North and next to the village passes the Egnatia Highway where there is the homonymous junction[3]. It is a mixed settlement with Christian and Muslim residents who are engaged in agriculture, livestock farming and tobacco production. In ancient times, the Egnatia Highway passed outside the village, of which a section of several meters has survived intact as it was in the past. In the 17th century, the Ottoman traveler Evliya Celebi passed through Mesti, referring to it as Köpekler.[4] After the Greek-Turkish population exchange, refugees from Kessani in Eastern Thrace settled there, the majority of them from the village of Machites or Mahmoukion.[5]
An important ecological attraction is the "Black Pine Forest" which starts from the south of the village and extends to the sea and west to Petrota Rodopi. It is a shrubby forest of dwarf trees, the main core of which spreads over an area of 460 acres, of which 190 are administratively under the jurisdiction of Rodopi and the rest under the jurisdiction of Evros.[6]
Administrative-population data
It is officially mentioned as a settlement, after the liberation, in 1924 in the Government Gazette 194A-14/08/1924, being annexed to the then community of Sykoragi (Sykorrachi)[7]. According to the Kallikratis Plan, it administratively falls under the local community of Sykorrachis, which belongs to the municipal unit of Alexandroupoli of the Municipality of Alexandroupoli and according to the 2011 census has a population of 112 inhabitants[8].
The population censuses after World War II are:
Year Population
1951 332[9]
1961 363[10]
1971 227[11]
1981 169[12]
1991 180[13]
2001 116[14]
2011 112
External links
Monument of exceptional beauty the Black Pine forest from https://www.ert.gr/perifereiakoi-stathmoi
References
GEOnet Names Server. June 11, 2018. -823844.
Encyclopedia Nea Domi. Tegopoulos-Maniateas. 1996. p. 61, vol. 22.
«EGNATIA ODOS S.A.». www.egnatia.eu. Archived from the original on January 11, 2017. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
Tsourdis, Dimitris (2021-01-01). Aegean Thrace through the eyes of Evliya Celebi: Convergences and divergences between myth and reality, p. 11.
Power, Evros. «Evros Power: EVROS CITIES». Evros Power. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
«The Black Pine Forest in Petrota». ECOThraki. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
"Administrative Changes of Settlements". EETAA. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
"Official Gazette of the results of the 2011 PERMANENT population census", p. 10486 (p. 13 of the pdf)
Population of Greece at the census of March 7, 1951, p. 53 of the pdf. Archived from the original on 2013-05-14.
Population of Greece at the census of March 19, 1961, p. 59 of the pdf.
Population of Greece at the census of March 14, 1971, p. 58 of the pdf.
Actual population of Greece at the census of April 5, 1981, p. 69 of the pdf.
Actual population of Greece according to the census of March 17, 1991, p. 73 of the pdf.
Actual population of Greece - Census 2001, p. 75 of the pdf.
| Community Sykorrachi |
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| Atarni (Ατάρνη, η) |
| Avra (Αύρα, η) |
| Komaros (Κόμαρος, η) |
| Mesti (Μέστη, η) |
| Perama (Πέραμα, το) |
| Sykorrachi (Συκορράχη, η) |
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