Ormenio

Ormenio ( Greek Ορμένιο ( n. Sg. ), Bulgarian Черномен Tschernomen ) is a Greek village in the Trigono district of the Orestiada municipality in the far northeast of the country. The village is located around 2 km from the Evros River and from the Bulgarian- Greek border crossing Kapitan Petko Wojwoda-Ormenio .

history

The Battle of the Maritsa took place near Ormenio in 1371 , in which a Bulgarian-Serbian army was defeated by the Ottomans .

In 1872 or shortly thereafter, the town received a railway connection when the İstanbul Sirkeci – Swilengrad railway went into operation. When Bulgaria became independent in 1878, the station became the Ottoman border station to Bulgaria. Due to the new demarcation due to the Treaty of Lausanne , the place fell to Greece in 1923, the station became a Greek / Bulgarian border station.

In 1971, Turkey opened a new, parallel railway line to Bulgaria, which runs exclusively over Turkish territory. International traffic between Europe and Turkey now flows through this. Ormenio station is now the terminus for Greek regional trains. The railway border crossing to Bulgaria is no longer used because of the insufficient volume of traffic.

Worth knowing

Under its Bulgarian name, the place has been the namesake for the Chernomen Glacier in Antarctica since 2010 .

Individual evidence

↑ Results of the 2011 census, Greek Statistical Office (ΕΛ.ΣΤΑΤ) ( Memento from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Excel document, 2.6 MB)

[VZ2011-1] Results of the 2011 census, Greek Statistical Office (ΕΛ.ΣΤΑΤ) ( Memento from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Excel document, 2.6 MB)