Orestiada Municipality
Orestiada (, formerly ), is the northeasternmost, northernmost and newest city of Greece and the second largest of the Evros regional unit of Thrace. It was founded in 1923 by Greek refugees from Edirne, after the population exchange between Greece and Turkey. It has a population of about 20,000.
Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Orestiada
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Ορεστιάδα
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipality
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- Die Athanasiou Pantazidou Straße im Stadtzentrum (2017).jpg
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- City centre
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- 2011 Dimos Orestiados.svg
- Greek Dimos.periph
- Eastern Macedonia and Thrace
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Evros
- Greek Dimos.pop_municipality
- 31686
- Greek Dimos.area_municipality
- 955.6
- Greek Dimos.pop_municunit
- 22005
- Greek Dimos.area_municunit
- 256.9
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Orestiada (, formerly ), is the northeasternmost, northernmost and newest city of Greece and the second largest of the Evros regional unit of Thrace. It was founded in 1923 by Greek refugees from Edirne, after the population exchange between Greece and Turkey. It has a population of about 20,000.
==History== thumb|250px|Historical and Folklore Museum of Orestiada In ancient times, there was Orestias, a small settlement on this site which legends claim was founded by Orestes, the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.