Ormenio

Ormenio Ορμένιο
Location
Ormenio
Coordinates	41°43′N 26°13′E / 41.717°N 26.217°E / 41.717; 26.217Coordinates: 41°43′N 26°13′E / 41.717°N 26.217°E / 41.717; 26.217
Government
Country:	Greece
Region:	East Macedonia and Thrace
Regional unit:	Evros
Municipality:	Orestiada
Municipal unit:	Trigono
Population statistics (as of 2001)
Village
- Population:	807
Other
Time zone:	EET/EEST (UTC+2/3)

Ormenio (Greek: Ορμένιο, formerly Ὀρμένιον, Orménion, Bulgarian: Черномен, Chernomen) is the northernmost place in all of Greece. It is located in the municipal unit of Trigono in the Evros Prefecture of Thrace, immediately south of the Bulgarian border. Ormenio is located west-northwest of Orestiada, about 200 km north of Alexandroupoli, about 40 km west of Edirne, Turkey and immediately south-southeast of Svilengrad, Bulgaria. The population are mainly of mixed ancestry.^{[citation needed]} Ormenio is linked with the GR-51/European route E85 (Alexandroupoli - Soufli - Orestiada - Ormenio), which connects across the border with the Bulgarian roads serving Svilengrad and Varna in addition to the A1 motorway which links Sofia and Edirne with the O-3 motorway (European route E80). The Evros river forms the border with Bulgaria to the east-northeast, with a land boundary lying to the north-northwest. During the Ottoman era, Ormenio was called Çirmen in Turkish.^[1]

Nearest places

• Ptelea, east-southeast
• Plati, south
• Svilengrad, Bulgaria, north-northwest

Population

Year	Population
1871	990
1981	846
1991	967
2001	807

History

In 1371 it was the site of the battle of Chernomen in which the Serb army under Ivan Uglesha and Valkashin was decisively defeated by the Ottomans. It was known as "Çirmen" during Ottoman rule and was a sanjak centre during a period. In 1878 it was inhabited by 870 Bulgarians and 120 Ottomans.^[2] After the Ottoman Rule, the village was annexed to Bulgaria as "Chernomen" until 1919, when the village was ceded to Greece. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, many of its buildings were rebuilt. In 1997 under the Capodistrian Plan, the community of Ormenio became the new municipality of Trigono with 16 other former communities.

Electricity and automobiles arrived in the 1960s, it was linked with pavement in the late-20th century, television arrived in the 1980s. Internet and computers arrived in the late-1990s.

See also

• List of settlements in the Evros prefecture

Footnotes

1. ^ http://www.thesis.bilkent.edu.tr/0002131.pdf Georgios Liakopoulos' Master of Science Thesis in Bilkent University
2. ^ Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 г.“ Македонски научен институт, София, 1995, стр. 34-35.

External links

• Ormenio on GTP Travel Pages