Listed 100 (total found 275) sub titles with search on: Local governments for wider area of: "MAKEDONIA EAST & THRACE Region GREECE" .
SELERO (Village) XANTHI
Tel: +30 25410 31333, 31531, 31200
Fax: +30 25410 31200, 31531, 31333
SIDIRONERO (Village) DRAMA
Tel: +30 25210 91219
Fax: +30 25210 91249, 91219
ALEXANDROUPOLI (Town) EVROS
Tel: +30 25510 88340, 88341
Fax: +30 25510 88342
KAVALA (Town) MAKEDONIA EAST & THRACE
Tel: +30 2510 831388, 831358
Fax: +30 2510 831378
LOUTRO (Small town) ALEXANDROUPOLI
Tel: +30 25510 61333, 61491
Fax: +30 25510 61333
AGIA PARASKEVI (Village) DRAMA
Tel: +30 25210 51466
AGIOS ANDREAS (Village) KAVALA
Tel: +30 25940 21600
AGIOS ATHANASSIOS (Small town) DRAMA
Tel: +30 25210 66404
AGIOS KOSMAS (Village) KAVALA
Tel: +30 25910 54343
AKROPOTAMOS (Village) KAVALA
Tel: +30 25920 44277
ALEPOCHORI (Village) DIDYMOTICHO
Tel: +30 25530 61310
AMORI (Village) DIDYMOTICHO
Tel: +30 25530 31354
ANTHOCHORI (Village) DRAMA
ANTIFILIPPI (Village) KAVALA
Tel: +30 25920 43204
ARGYROUPOLI (Village) DRAMA
Tel: +30 25210 95205
ASPRONERI (Village) DIDYMOTICHO
Tel: +30 25530 94045
ASSIMENIO (Village) DIDYMOTICHO
Tel: +30 25530 41361
ASVESTADES (Village) DIDYMOTICHO
Tel: +30 25530 93367
AVAS (Village) ALEXANDROUPOLI
Tel: +30 25510 91223
Fax: +30 25510 91240
AVDIRA (Small town) XANTHI
Tel: +30 25413 52500
Fax: +30 25413 52554
CHARITOMENI (Village) DRAMA
CHRYSSI AMOUDIA (Port) THASSOS
Tel: +30 25930 61207
CHRYSSOCHORI (Small town) KAVALA
Tel: +30 25910 61203
CHRYSSOKASTRO (Village) KAVALA
Tel: +30 25920 51444
CHRYSSOKEFALOS (Village) DRAMA
Tel: +30 25230 22594
DIDYMOTICHO (Town) EVROS
Didymoteichon, today a small town of approximately 12000 people, bears
a long and extremely noteworthy history.
The city is lying next to the Erythropotamos
river, on the western bank of the famous Hevros
river.
The first habitation was founded on the Hagia Petra hill at the Southeastern
end of the city in the Neolithic period, according to recent excavational evidence.
During the Early Iron Age two villages existed together in both hills of the city,
Hagia Petra and Kales, the second lying at the western end of today’s Didymoteichon.
Abundant quantities of ceramics (local, imported Attic & Thasian pottery
etc.) as well as other findings form the ancient historic times witness not only
the existence of a city at that period but, even more, its close relations with
the Greeks.
During the "Pax Romana" the emperor Traianos re-established
the city, honouring it with the name of his wife, Plotina. Plotinopolis became
one of the most important cities of Roman Thrace,
being itself under an autonomous regime. The city reached a remarkable status
of welfare, reflected on random findings or results of the few excavational works
done up to now: floor mosaics representing the Hercules deeds and the Zeus-Swan
and Leda legend, or the famous golden head of the emperor Septimus Severus. The
decadence of the Empire & the barbaric invasions & lootings caused the gradual
transportation of the city from the hill of Hagia Petra to that of Kales. It's
perhaps then that Didymoteichon took its last name, if we accept that it means
Twin (= δίδυμο) castles. During the Byzantine period the importance of the city
is growing, because of its crucial geostragetic position and its steep, impregnable
stronghold of Kales where it lied. This constantly growing significance is well
marked by writers of the Middle and Late Byzantine times Greeks as well as foreigners,
like Godfried Villeharduin, who stresses that "Ditymoteichon was the strongest
and one of the richest cities of Romania" (= the territory of the Byzantine
empire). Especially during the Paleologian period (13th and first half of the
14th century) Didymoteichon becomes the focus of the historical events: capital
of the emperors Andronicos the Third the Paleologos and Ioannis the Sixth Kantakouzenos
during the catastrophic civil wars of 1321 to 1354, also witnesses the birth of
"Purple-born" emperors, as well as royal weddings, imperial army, inauguration
of two emperors, etc. Unfortunately only recently excavations have began to bear
in light the expected traces of this glorious past:
An imperial foundation nest to Agios Athanassios post-byzantine church
where the excavation has revealed a peculiar structure and some unique fragments
of byzantine frescoes, the humble funeral chapel of Hagia Aikaterini, the hundreds
of rock-cut caves, shaped by the mediaeval inhabitants of the city as cisterns
or storerooms at the back of their houses and of course the byzantine walls retaining
building phases form Justinian time to the early Ottoman period on the surfaces
of the towers and in the castle one can still can see monograms of byzantine nobles,
imperial families etc.
The Turkish occupation holds for more than 550 years, from 1361 to
1920 and is characterized from an extraordinary early ottoman building activity,
parallel to the choice of the city as a temporary capital of the empire.
On the other hand the greek element has a thriving presence and through
the years becomes the dominating factor socially, economically & culturally as
is shown by the vast quantities of the exported Didymoteichon pottery and the
post byzantine churches with the marvelous wooden temples and icons, offered by
the powerful professional unions.
The city was liberated in 1920, 19th of May.
This text (extract) is cited September 2003 from the Municipality
of Didymoteichon tourist pamphlet (1995).
DORIKO (Village) ALEXANDROUPOLI
Tel: +30 25510 51286, 34683
DOXA (Village) DIDYMOTICHO
Tel: +30 25530 96005
ELAFOCHORI (Village) DIDYMOTICHO
Tel: +30 25530 95311
ELAFOCHORI (Village) KAVALA
Tel: +30 25910 54296
ELEFTHERES (Small town) KAVALA
Tel: +30 25940 41213
ELLINOCHORI (Small town) DIDYMOTICHO
Tel: +30 25530 23460
ESSYMI (Village) ALEXANDROUPOLI
Tel: +30 25510 93203
Fax: +30 25510 93203
FERES (Small town) ALEXANDROUPOLI
Tel: +30 25550 22211
GENISSEA (Small town) XANTHI
Tel: +30 25413 52500
Fax: +30 25413 52554
ISSAAKIO (Village) DIDYMOTICHO
Tel: +30 25530 23582
KALI VRYSSI (Village) DRAMA
KALOS AGROS (Small town) DRAMA
Tel: +30 25210 96210
KAROTI (Small town) DIDYMOTICHO
Tel: +30 25530 91280
KATO VRODOU (Village) DRAMA
Tel: +30 25230 31284
KECHROKAMBOS (Village) KAVALA
Tel: +30 25910 59257
KIRKI (Village) ALEXANDROUPOLI
Tel: +30 25510 80108
Fax: +30 25510 80108
KOKINOCHOMA (Small town) KAVALA
Tel: +30 2510 326060
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