Protoklissi

Protoklissi or Protokklisi (Greek, Modern: Πρωτοκκλήσι, Katharevoussa: ον "-on" meaning the first church), older forms: -o and -on, also with the second o accented is a village in the northcentral part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece. Protoklissi is in the municipality of Orfeas. The location is near the heart of the prefectural mainland and is centrally located between the Bulgarian and the Turkish borders as well as the Evros River. Protokklisi is linked with the road connecting GR-51/E85 (Alexandroupoli - Soufli - Orestiada - Ormenio) and Mega Dereio with no road connecting Bulgaria or any trails, the trails are fenced. Its 2001 population was 669 for the village and 1,120 for the municipal district. The area are hilly and forested while the mountains dominate the west, most of the area are forested, farmlands are within the village.

Location

Protokklisi is located about 70 to 75 km southwest of Orestiada, 50 km west-southwest of Didymoteicho, west-northwest of the Evros River and the Turkish border, 60 km north of Alexandroupoli, northeast of the Greek capital city of Athens and east-southeast of the Bulgarian border.

ettlement

*Agriani

Nearest places

*Amorio, east-southeast (distance: 6 km)

Population

History

The village was founded by the Ottoman Turks and named it after a Bulgarian population, its name was known as (Башклисе "Bašklise", Turkish: "Başkilise"). In the 1880s, it had a functional Bulgarian building. In 1830, it had 100 Bulgarians, in 1878 and 1912 (according to Ljudomir Miletiš, the demographic statistics had 100 Bulgarian exarchists, during the Balkan Wars, it annexed to Bulgaria from Turkey ending a few centuries of Ottoman Rule, it had 105 and 55 in 1920. In the same time, it was annexed to Greece and the last of the Bulgarians were pushed northward, During the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922), refugees east of the Evros river and from Asia Minor arrived into the village. It became entirely Protoklissi after the annexation. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, many of its buildings were rebuilt. 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. The village's lost three fourths of its population between 1981 and 1991 and two thirds between 1991 and 2001 totaling to nearly half between 1981 and 2001, its inhabitants left for the larger cities and outside Greece.

People

*Pano Angelov (Пано Ангелов, 1879-1903), Bulgarian revolutionary leader

Other

Protoklissi has a school, a gymnasium (middle school) church, banks, a post office, and a square ("plateia"). Its nearest lyceum (secondary school) is in Amori.

ee also

*List of places in the Evros prefecture

External links

* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=10744 Protoklissi on GTP Travel Pages]
*Coordinates: coord|41|15|0|N|26|18|0|E|type:city(669)_region:GR|display=inline,title