Ormenio

Ormenio (; ; ) is the northernmost place in all of Greece. It is part of the municipal unit of Trigono in the Evros regional unit of Thrace. It is situated near the right bank of the river Evros, which forms the border with Bulgaria here. On the other side of the Evros, 6 km to the north, lies the Bulgarian town Svilengrad. Nearby villages in Greece are Ptelea to its southeast and Petrota to its southwest.

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Greek Dimos.name: Ormenio
Greek Dimos.name_local: Ορμένιο
Greek Dimos.type: community
Greek Dimos.image_skyline: Ormenio station.jpg
Greek Dimos.caption_skyline: Ormenio train station
Greek Dimos.periph: East Macedonia and Thrace
Greek Dimos.periphunit: Evros
Greek Dimos.municipality: Orestiada
Greek Dimos.municunit: Trigono
Greek Dimos.population_as_of: 2021
Greek Dimos.population: 344
Greek Dimos.georegion: Western Thrace

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Wikidata facts

Population: 557
Elevation: 53
Image: Ormenio station.jpg
Dialing code: 2556

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native label: Ορμένιο
postal code: 68007
Commons category: Ormenio

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==History== In 1371 Ormenio was the site of the Battle of Maritsa in which the Serb army under Ivan Uglesha and his brother Vukashin was decisively defeated by the Ottomans. It was known as "Çirmen" during Ottoman rule and was a sanjak centre until 1829. In 1530 it was inhabited by 394 non-Muslims and 1812 Muslims. By the end of the Russo-Turkish War in 1878, it was inhabited by 870 Bulgarians and 120 Muslims. After the Balkan Wars, the village was annexed to Bulgaria as "Chernomen" until 1919, when the village was ceded to Greece in the Treaty of Neuilly. In 1997 under the Kapodistrias reform, the community of Ormenio became part of the new municipality of Trigono with 12 other former communities. At the 2011 Kallikratis reform, Trigono became a municipal unit of the municipality Orestiada.