Fylakio (Greek: Φυλάκιο) is a village in the
Evros regional unit of northeast Greece. Fylakio is in the municipal unit of
Kyprinos
Kyprinos () is a town and a former municipality in the Evros regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Orestiada, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has ...
. In 2021 the population was 867 for the community, including the villages
Ammovouno and Keramos. It is located on the right bank of the river
Ardas, about halfway between
Ivaylovgrad (Bulgaria) and
Edirne
Edirne (; ), historically known as Orestias, Adrianople, is a city in Turkey, in the northwestern part of the Edirne Province, province of Edirne in Eastern Thrace. Situated from the Greek and from the Bulgarian borders, Edirne was the second c ...
(Turkey).
Population
History
Towards the end of
Ottoman rule, Fylakio's inhabitants were 3/4 Bulgarian and 1/4 Turkish. After a brief period of Bulgarian rule between 1913 and 1919, it became part of Greece. Greek refugees from
Asia Minor
Anatolia (), also known as Asia Minor, is a peninsula in West Asia that makes up the majority of the land area of Turkey. It is the westernmost protrusion of Asia and is geographically bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean ...
arrived in the village following the end of the war.
Fylakio detention center
South east of the village there is an
immigration detention center housing people arrested for illegally crossing the nearby border with Turkey.
November 04, 2010. By Elena Becatoros, Associated Press: "Greece: Europe's gateway for illegal immigration".
See also
* List of settlements in the Evros regional unit
References
{{Kyprinos
Populated places in Evros (regional unit)
Orestiada
Greece–Turkey border
Bulgaria–Greece border