Avas
Άβας | |
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Coordinates: 40°56′N 25°55′E / 40.933°N 25.917°E | |
Country | Greece |
Administrative region | East Macedonia and Thrace |
Regional unit | Evros |
Municipality | Alexandroupoli |
Municipal unit | Alexandroupoli |
Population (2021)[1] | |
• Community | 486 |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Vehicle registration | EB |
Avas or Avantas (Greek, modern: Άβαντας, katharevousa: Άβας, Bulgarian: Дервент, Turkish: Dervent) is a village in the southern part of the Evros regional unit, Greece. Avantas is located 10 km north of Alexandroupoli. It is on the Greek National Road 53 (Alexandroupoli - Mikro Dereio - Ormenio), between Alexandroupoli to the south and Aisymi to the north. In 2021 its population was 486.
Population
[edit]Year | Population |
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1912 | about 400 |
1981 | 555 |
1991 | 516 |
2001 | 497 |
2011 | 527 |
2021 | 486 |
History
[edit]The village was founded by the Ottoman Turks. Its inhabitants were 3/4 Bulgarian and 1/4 Turkish before the Balkan Wars and the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922). According to professor Lyubomir Miletich, the 1912 population contained 320 Bulgarian families.[2] Refugees from east of the Evros river and from Asia Minor arrived into the village. Its name was changed from the Turkish Dervent to the current Avas.
People
[edit]- Mitro Karabeljata, Revolutionary leader and strategist of Tane Nikolov
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "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.
- ^ Любомиръ Милетич. Разорението на тракийскитe българи през 1913 година, Българска Академия на Науките, София, Държавна Печатница, 1918, стр. 295.