Stavroupoli () is a village and a former municipality in the
Xanthi regional unit,
East Macedonia and Thrace
Eastern Macedonia and Thrace ( ; , ) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It consists of the northeastern parts of the country, comprising the eastern part of the region of Macedonia along with the region of Western Thr ...
,
Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...
. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality
Xanthi
Xanthi is a city in the region of Western Thrace, northeastern Greece. It is the capital of the Xanthi regional unit of the region of East Macedonia and Thrace.
Amphitheatrically built on the foot of Rhodope mountain chain, the city is divided ...
, of which it is a municipal unit.
The municipal unit has an area of 342.002 km
2.
Population 1,635 (2021). Stavroupoli and Nestos Valley (Greek: Κοιλάδα του Νέστου) including
Nestos River Tempi (Greek: Τέμπη του Νέστου) is a popular tour region and vacation target in North Greece.
The municipal unit Stavroupoli is subdivided into the communities
Dafnonas,
Gerakas
Gerakas () is a town, a suburb of Athens and a former municipality in East Attica, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pallini, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.
In antiquity Gerakas consti ...
,
Karyofyto,
Komnina,
Neochori,
Paschalia and Stavroupoli. The community Stavroupoli consists of the settlements Stavroupoli, Lykodromi, Kallithea and Margariti.
History
During the
Bulgarian administration of the region in
World War II
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from 1941 to 1944, the village was infamous as the location of the Krastopole or Enikyoy
concentration camp
A concentration camp is a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the grounds of national security, or for exploitati ...
where
Bulgarian Communist Party
The Bulgarian Communist Party ( Bulgarian: Българска комунистическа партия (БΚП), Romanised: ''Bŭlgarska komunisticheska partiya''; BKP) was the founding and ruling party of the People's Republic of Bulgaria f ...
and other left-wing enemies of the ruling regime were interned.
Names
Under
Ottoman rule, the Ottoman Turkish name of the village was يڭى كوى ''Yeni Köy'' (in Greek, Γενή Κιόι, in Bulgarian Еникьой ''Enikyoy'') 'New Village'.
[Tahir Sezen, ''Osmanlı Yer Adları'', Ankara 2017, T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü Yayın No: 2]
''s.v.'', p. 814
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Notable people
* George Papassavas (1924) painter
* Katerina Sakellaropoulou (1956) The first female president of Hellenic republic
References
External links
Δήμος Σταυρούπολης (in Greek and English)
Populated places in Xanthi (regional unit)
Xanthi
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