Echinos (Thrace)
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Echinos district Δημοτική Κοινότητα Εχίνου (Εχίνος) |
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| Basic data | |||
| Country |
 Greece
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| region | East Macedonia and Thrace | ||
| Regional district | Xanthi | ||
| local community | Myki | ||
| Parish | Myki | ||
| status | Borough | ||
| Geographic coordinates | 41 ° 16 ′ N , 24 ° 58 ′ E | ||
| Height above d. M. |
332 m (average) |
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| surface | 85.691 km² | ||
| Residents | 3074 (2011) | ||
| LAU-1 code no. | 06030102 | ||
| Local division | 2 | ||
Echinos ( Greek Εχίνος ( m. Sg. ), Bulgarian Шахин , Turkish Şahin ) is a small town in the municipality of Myki in the Greek region of East Macedonia and Thrace . Together with the village of Melivia, it forms an urban district ( Dimotiki Kinotita Echinou Δημοτική Κοινότητα Εχίνου) with 3074 inhabitants (2011).
Echinos is located in the eastern Rhodopes at about 340 meters above sea level on the Xeró river and about 11 km from the state border with Bulgaria and 17 km north-northeast of the city of Xanthi . Echinos is a center of the Pomaks , a Muslim minority. The residents speak Pomak, Bulgarian and Turkish. There are three mosques , a market and a health station in the place with 2486 inhabitants and forms the economic center of the mountainous area. The main source of income is the cultivation of tobacco . Many local men speak a little German because they often work as guest workers in Germany or used to work there.
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- Article on the situation of the Muslim minority in Greece
- "Marginalized - Turkish minority in western Thrace", article of the Society for Threatened Peoples
- "Where the golden jackal lives", article in the "Berliner Tagesspiegel" from May 4, 2008
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ National Statistical Service of Greece (ΕΣΥΕ) according to 2001 census , p. 107 (PDF, 793 kB)
- ↑ a b Results of the 2011 census, Greek Statistical Office (ΕΛ.ΣΤΑΤ) ( Memento from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Excel document, 2.6 MB)