Komara ( el, Κόμαρα) is a village in the northwestern part of the Evros regional unit in northern

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. Komara is in the municipal unit of

Trigono Trígono ( el, Τρίγωνο, , meaning "triangle") is 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 municip ...

. Its population was 628 in 2011. Komara is situated on the left (northern) bank of the river

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, near the border with

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. It is 2 km north of

Kyprinos Kyprinos ( el, Κυπρίνος) 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. T ...

, the nearest larger village. It is 20 km south of the Bulgarian town

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, 27 km northwest of

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and 29 km west of the Turkish city

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Population

History

Komara was founded by the

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between 1780 and 1790. Greeks from

Adrianople Edirne (, ), formerly known as Adrianople or Hadrianopolis (Greek: Άδριανούπολις), is a city in Turkey, in the northwestern part of the province of Edirne in Eastern Thrace. Situated from the Greek and from the Bulgarian borders, ...

(Edirne),

Ortaköy Ortaköy ( ''Middle Village)'' is a neighbourhood within the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey, on the European shore of the Bosphorus. it was originally a small fishing village, known in Greek as Agios Fokas (Άγιος Φωκάς) in t ...

and Northern Thrace were employed in the manor. The name "Komara" comes from the

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phrase (''kum aresi'') which means "between the sands" in English. The residents came from

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, Ortaköy,

and

Kırklareli Kırklareli () is a city within Kırklareli Province in the East Thrace, European part of Turkey. Name It is not clearly known when the city was founded, nor under what name. The Byzantine Greeks called it Sarànta Ekklisiès (''Σαράντα Ε� ...

. In 1885, 45 to 50 families lived in the village, and a school was constructed. After a brief period of Bulgarian rule between 1913 and 1919, it became part of Greece. As a result, its Bulgarian and Turkish population was exchanged with Greek refugees, mainly from today's Turkey. After Komara was devastated by the floods of Arda in 1931, its inhabitants relocated to a higher location, 1 km north of the original village. In 1997 under the

Kapodistrias reform Kapodistrias reform ( el, Σχέδιο Καποδίστριας, "Kapodistrias Plan") is the common name of law 2539 of Greece, which reorganised the country's administrative divisions. The law, named after 19th-century Greek statesman Ioannis Kapod ...

, the community of Komara became part of the new municipality of Trigono with 16 other former communities. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality

, of which it is a community.

References

*Kyrkoudis, Theodoros. ''Τρίγωνο, η Μεσοποταμία του Έβρου'' ("Trigono, The Mesopotamia Of Evros"). Pelti, .

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Photos with other sources
on Komara and A.O. Komara
Komara on GTP Travel Pages
{{Authority control Trigono Populated places in Evros (regional unit)

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