Genisea ( el, Γενισέα) is a town in the

Vistonida Vistonida ( el, Βιστωνίδα) is a former municipality in the Xanthi regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. It was named after Lake Vistonida. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Abdera, of whic ...

municipal unit, within the municipality of Abdera in the Xanthi regional unit of

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. It is the seat of the municipality Abdera. According to the 2011 census, the population of Genisea was 2,185 inhabitants. Genisea was ruled by the

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from 1478-1912 as

Ottoman Turkish Ottoman Turkish ( ota, لِسانِ عُثمانى, Lisân-ı Osmânî, ; tr, Osmanlı Türkçesi) was the standardized register of the Turkish language used by the citizens of the Ottoman Empire (14th to 20th centuries CE). It borrowed extens ...

يڭيجه ''Yenice'', more specifically ''Karasu Yenicesi'' (after the

Nestos River Nestos ( ), Mesta ( ), or formerly the Mesta Karasu in Turkish (Karasu meaning "black river"), is a river in Bulgaria and Greece. It rises in the Rila Mountains and flows into the Aegean Sea near the island of Thasos. It plunges down towering c ...

, Mesta Karasu) or Tütün Yenicesi ('tobacco') to distinguish it from يڭيجۀ واردار ''Yenice-i Vardar'', modern

Giannitsa Giannitsa ( el, Γιαννιτσά , in English also Yannitsa, Yenitsa) is the largest city in the regional unit of Pella and the capital of the Pella municipality, in the region of Central Macedonia in northern Greece. The municipal unit Gian ...

.Tahir Sezen, ''Osmanlı Yer Adları'', Ankara 2017, T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü Yayın No: 2
''s.v.'', p. 810
/ref> Under the spellings "Yenidje" or "Yenidze", Genisea was famous for its superior

Oriental tobacco Turkish tobacco, or Oriental tobacco, is a highly aromatic, small-leafed variety of tobacco which is sun-cured. Turkish tobacco plants usually have a greater number and smaller size leaves. These differences can be attributed to climate, soil, cu ...

, especially suited for

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s. It lent its name to the Yenidze tobacco factory building in

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

and to the British

Yenidje Tobacco Company Limited {{Short description, Former British tobacco company Yenidje Tobacco Company Limited was a British tobacco company founded in 1913 by Louis Rothman and Markus Weinberg. The company was named for the town of Yenidje, Thrace (modern Genisea, Greece), a ...

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Populated places in Xanthi (regional unit) {{EMacedoniaThrace-geo-stub

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