Topeiros Municipality

Topeiros () is a municipality in the Xanthi regional unit, Greece. The municipality has an area of 312.493 km2 and a population 9,473 (2021). The seat of the municipality is in Evlalo.

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Greek Dimos.name: Topeiros
Greek Dimos.name_local: Τόπειρος
Greek Dimos.type: municipality
Greek Dimos.image_map: 2011 Dimos Topirou.svg
Greek Dimos.periph: East Macedonia and Thrace
Greek Dimos.periphunit: Xanthi
Greek Dimos.pop_municipality: 9473
Greek Dimos.area_municipality: 312.5
Greek Dimos.population_as_of: 2021
Greek Dimos.licence: AH
Greek Dimos.mayor: Thomas Michoglou
Greek Dimos.since: 2014
Greek Dimos.seat

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Topeiros () is a municipality in the Xanthi regional unit, Greece. The municipality has an area of 312.493 km2 and a population 9,473 (2021). The seat of the municipality is in Evlalo.

==History== Topeiros was an ancient Thracian settlement, which in the imperial times evolved into a great urban center survived until the Byzantine period. The city is identified with the late Roman and Byzantine ruins saved a little south of the modern village of Paradeisos, where there is a passage of the river Nestos. The city functioned as tribal, administrative and religious center of the Thracian tribe of Sapaioi.