Oreino ( el, Ορεινό; local Slavic: Јурен Дере, Орен Дере; tr, Juren Dere, Oren Dere) is a former village, now in ruins, in Kavala regional unit,

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. During the

population exchange between Greece and Turkey The 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey ( el, Ἡ Ἀνταλλαγή, I Antallagí, ota, مبادله, Mübâdele, tr, Mübadele) stemmed from the "Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations" signed at ...

in the early 1920s, the population, primarily

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with some

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, were forced to leave their homes and the village was not repopulated.Todor Hristov Simovski, ''The Inhabited Places of the Aegean Macedonia'' (Skopje 1998), , p. 212 There is a large stone wall that still exists after a war that occurred around the year 1500.

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Ruins in Greece Kavala (regional unit) Buildings and structures in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace {{EMacedoniaThrace-geo-stub