Neo Cheimonio () is a village in the municipality of
Orestiada in the northern part of the
Evros regional unit in Greece. It is 6 km south of the centre of Orestiada. Neo Cheimonio is situated on the
Greek National Road 51 (Feres - Soufli - Didymoteicho - Orestiada - Ormenio - Svilengrad), and has a station on the Ormenio - Didymoteicho railway. It is about 5 km west of the river
Evros, that forms the border with
Turkey here. The nearest village is
Thourio to the south. It was annexed by Greece in 1920, prior it was ruled by the
Ottomans
The Ottoman Turks ( tr, Osmanlı Türkleri), were the Turkic founding and sociopolitically the most dominant ethnic group of the Ottoman Empire ( 1299/1302–1922).
Reliable information about the early history of Ottoman Turks remains scarce, ...
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Population
The town is populated by
Arvanites.
See also
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List of settlements in the Evros regional unit
External links
Official WebsiteNeo Chimonio on GTP Travel Pages
References
{{Orestiada
Populated places in Evros (regional unit)
Orestiada
Albanian communities of Western Thrace