Oreino, Kavala

Oreino (Greek: Ορεινό; local Slavic: Јурен Дере, Орен Дере; Turkish: Juren Dere, Oren Dere) is a former village, now in ruins, in Kavala regional unit, Greece. During the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the early 1920s, the population, primarily Turks with some Slavs, were forced to leave their homes and the village was not repopulated.[1] There is a large stone wall that still lyes there after a war that occurred in 1500 ad and that village had started that war

Coordinates: 41°02′N 24°29′E / 41.033°N 24.483°E / 41.033; 24.483

References

Oreino, Kavala at GEOnet Names Server

  1. ↑ Todor Hristov Simovski, The Inhabited Places of the Aegean Macedonia (Skopje 1998), ISBN 9989-9819-4-9, p. 212


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, March 11, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.