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'''Thourio''' (Greek, Modern: Θούριο, Bulgarian: Каблешково, ''Kableshkovo'', Turkish: ''Urlu'') is a village in the northwestern part of the ] in Greece located between ] and ]. Thourio is in the municipality of ]. Thourio is located south of ] and ], ], 8 km southwest of ], west of the border between Creece and Turkey, north of ] northeast of ] and north-northeast of ]. The ] is 4 kilometres to the east. |
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'''Thourio''' (Greek: Θούριο, Bulgarian: Каблешково - ''Kableshkovo'', Turkish: ''Urlu'') is a village in the northeastern part of the ] in Greece. Thourio is in the municipality of ]. It is located between Orestiada to the north and ] to the south, about 4 km west of the river ], that forms the border with ] here. The nearest villages are ] to the north and Sofiko to the south. Thourio is on the ] (Feres - Soufli - Didymoteicho - Orestiada - Ormenio - Svilengrad), and has a station on the Ormenio - Didymoteicho railway. |
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==Nearest places== |
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==Population== |
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==Population== |
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| 1981 || 2,245 |
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| 1991 || 722 |
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==History== |
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==History== |
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''Urlu'', as turks named the present Thourio, was ruled by the ] until the First ] in 1912. It was a important railway train-station on the line ]-]. Urlu joined to ] in ] during the First Balkan War and according to the ]. The ] return it to Turkey, but pretty soon the Turkey-Bulgarian 1915 Convention restored Bulgarian sovereignty and the town named ''Kableshkovo''. It become a part of Bulgaria until the ] after which ceded to ] and receive the present name. After the ] many of bulgarians were displaced. In ] as a result of ], refugees arrived from ] and ] forms a majority of the today population. After the ] and the ], many of the buildings were rebuilt, but in the following years many of the inhabitants move to the larger towns and cities as well as its suburbs around Greece and other parts of the world. The small town lose by about 2/3 of its citizens and that made it the village lost the most population in Thrace. |
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''Urlu'', as Turks named the present Thourio, was ruled by the ] until the ] in 1912. It was an important railway station on the line ]-]. Urlu joined ] during the First Balkan War and according to the ]. The ] returned it to Turkey, but in 1915, during ], Turkey ceded the area of Didymoteicho to its ally Bulgaria, and the town was renamed ''Kableshkovo''. During the ] it was ceded to ] and it received the present name. Its Bulgarian and Turkish population was exchanged with Greek refugees, mainly from today's Turkey. |
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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. |
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==See also== |
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