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Xanthi [a] is a city in the region of Western Thrace, northeastern Greece. It is the capital of the Xanthi regional unit of the region of East Macedonia and Thrace . Amphitheatrically built on the foot of Rhodope mountain chain, the city is divided by the Kosynthos River, into the west part, where the old and the modern town are located, and ...
Xanthi was established as a prefecture in 1944 (Greek: Νομός Ξάνθης), when it was split off from the Rhodope Prefecture.As a part of the 2011 Kallikratis government reform, the prefecture was transformed into a regional unit within the East Macedonia and Thrace region, with no change in its boundaries.
The region is home to Greece's main Muslim minority, made up mainly of Pomaks and Western Thrace Turks, whose presence dates to the Ottoman period. Unlike the Muslims of Macedonia , Epirus , and elsewhere in northern Greece , they were exempted from the Greek-Turkish population exchange following the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne .
Skiathos and other parts of Greece and Turkey to be hit with further rain and thunderstorms
Stavroupoli (Greek: Σταυρούπολη) is a village and a former municipality in the Xanthi regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Xanthi, of which it is a municipal unit. [2] The municipal unit has an area of 342.002 km 2. [3] Population 1,635 (2021).
The Rodopi Mountain Range National Park (Greek: Εθνικό Πάρκο Οροσειράς Ροδόπης) is a national park in Greece, situated in the central-west massif of the Greek section of the Rhodope Mountains. [1] It covers an area of approximately 170,000 hectares and includes the largest and most productive forest ecosystems in ...
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