Neo Sidirochori ( el, Νέο Σιδηροχώρι, tr, Cambaz, bg, Нов Самоков) is a village and a former municipality in the Rhodope regional unit,

East Macedonia and Thrace Eastern Macedonia and Thrace ( el, Ανατολική Μακεδονία και Θράκη, translit=Anatolikí Makedonía ke Thráki, ) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It consists of the northeastern parts of the coun ...

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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality

Komotini Komotini ( el, Κομοτηνή, tr, Gümülcine, bg, Комотини) is a city in the region of East Macedonia and Thrace, northeastern Greece. It is the capital of the Rhodope. It was the administrative centre of the Rhodope-Evros super-pr ...

, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 120.488 km². Population 2,778 (2011). The majority of the residents of the village descend from originally

Pomak Pomaks ( bg, Помаци, Pomatsi; el, Πομάκοι, Pomáki; tr, Pomaklar) are Bulgarian-speaking Muslims inhabiting northwestern Turkey, Bulgaria and northeastern Greece. The c. 220,000 strong ethno-confessional minority in Bulgaria is ...

refugees who had to flee from the village of Samakovo in

Eastern Thrace Eastern may refer to: Transportation *China Eastern Airlines, a current Chinese airline based in Shanghai * Eastern Air, former name of Zambia Skyways * Eastern Air Lines, a defunct American airline that operated from 1926 to 1991 *Eastern Air ...

after the Greek defeat in the Greco-Turkish War

References

Populated places in Rhodope (regional unit) Komotini {{EMacedoniaThrace-geo-stub el:Δήμος Κομοτηνής#Δημοτική ενότητα Νέου Σιδηροχωρίου