Komotini
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Komotini municipality Δήμος Κομοτηνής (Κομοτηνή) |
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| Region : | East Macedonia and Thrace | ||
| Regional District : | Rodopi | ||
| Geographic coordinates : | 41 ° 7 ' N , 25 ° 24' E | ||
| Area : | 644.66 km² | ||
| Residents : | 66,919 (2011) | ||
| Population density : | 103.8 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Post Code: | 69100 | ||
| Prefix: | (+30) 25310 | ||
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| Seat: | Komotini | ||
| LAU-1 code no .: | 0101 | ||
| Districts : | 3 municipal districts | ||
| Local self-government : |
1 city district 25 local communities |
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| Website: | www.komotini.gr | ||
| Location in the region of East Macedonia and Thrace | |||
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Komotini ( Greek Κομοτηνή [ kɔmɔtini ] ( f. Sg. ), Turkish Gümülcine , Bulgarian Гюмюрджина Gjumjurdschina ) is the capital of the Greek region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace .
Geographical location
Komotini is located on the southern edge of the Rhodope Mountains . Near the city are the ruins of the medieval fortress of Mosinopol, where Via Egnatia and a junction to the north to fortress Stanimaka and Via Militaris crossed.
population
With the end of the First World War, Komotini became Greek. As a result, the Bulgarian population was expelled (→ Thracian Bulgarians ). Some of the displaced settled in Sozopol and other places in the Burgas region.
About half of the inhabitants of Komotini are ethnic Turks and Pomaks with Greek citizenship (see also Turks in Western Thrace ). They were excluded from the exchange of population between Greece and Turkey agreed in the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923, as were Greeks from Istanbul, from Gökçeada (Greek Imbros) and Bozcaada (Greek Tenedos) . In contrast to the Greeks in Turkey, their number has remained constant or increased since 1923.
Komotini is also characterized by students, as the local university is a popular study location.
traffic
The train station of Komotini is located on the 1896 opened railway line Thessaloniki-Alexandroupoli .
sons and daughters of the town
- Anna Avramea (1934-2008), Byzantinist
- Sadık Ahmet (1947–1995), Greek-Turkish politician and surgeon
- Mehmet Müezzinoğlu (* 1955), Turkish politician
- Hamza Hamzaoğlu (* 1970), Turkish football player and coach
- Konstandinos Baniotis (* 1986), high jumper
Worth knowing
- Komotini is the seat of an Orthodox bishop.
- The Democritus University of Thrace has been located here since 1973 .
- The Archaeological Museum of Komotini exhibits the gold bust of Septimius Severus , which was found in Didymoticho in 1965 .
- The local club Panthrakikos plays in the first Greek football league .
- Komotini is friends with the Turkish city of Yalova .
See also
Web links
- Archaeological Museum of Komotini (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Results of the 2011 census at the National Statistical Service of Greece (ΕΛ.ΣΤΑΤ) ( Memento from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Excel document, 2.6 MB)
- ↑ Reginald Byron (Ed.), Ullrich Kockel: Negotiating Culture: Moving, Mixing and Memory in Contemporary Europe , In. Volume 5 European Studies in Culture and Policy , LIT Verlag Münster, 2006, p. 9.1
- ↑ Society for Threatened Peoples, marginalized - Turkish minority in Western Thrace ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Accordingly, there are 105,000 Muslims with Greek citizenship, including 48 percent minority Turks. About half of the inhabitants of Komotini - Gümülcine in Turkish - are Turks.
