Stavroupoli ( el, Σταυρούπολη) is a village and a former municipality in the Xanthi 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 cou ...

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

Xanthi Xanthi ( el, Ξάνθη, ''Xánthi'', ) is a city in the region of Western Thrace, northeastern Greece. It is the capital of the Xanthi regional unit of the region of East Macedonia and Thrace. Amphitheatrically built on the foot of Rhodope m ...

, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 342.002 km². Population 2,050 (2011). Stavroupoli and Nestos Valley (Greek: Κοιλάδα του Νέστου) including Nestos River Tempi (Greek: Τέμπη του Νέστου) is a popular tour region and vacation target in North Greece. The municipal unit Stavroupoli is subdivided into the communities

Dafnonas This page is for Dafnonas, Xanthi. For other villages of the same name, see Dafnonas, Chios. Dafnonas ( el, Δαφνώνας) is a settlement in the municipality Xanthi Xanthi ( el, Ξάνθη, ''Xánthi'', ) is a city in the region of Wester ...

Gerakas Gerakas ( el, Γέρακας) is a suburb of Athens and a former municipality in East Attica, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pallini, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. In antiquity Gera ...

, Karyofyto, Komnina, Neochori, Paschalia and Stavroupoli. The community Stavroupoli consists of the settlements Stavroupoli, Lykodromi, Kallithea and Margariti.

History

During the Bulgarian administration of the region in

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from 1941 to 1944, the village was infamous as the location of the Krastopole or Enikyoy

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where

Bulgarian Communist Party The Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP; bg, Българска Комунистическа Партия (БКП), Balgarska komunisticheska partiya (BKP)) was the founding and ruling party of the People's Republic of Bulgaria from 1946 until 198 ...

and other left-wing enemies of the ruling regime were interned.

Names

Under Ottoman rule, the Ottoman Turkish name of the village was يڭى كوى ''Yeni Köy'' (in Greek, Γενή Κιόι, in Bulgarian Еникьой ''Enikyoy'') 'New Village'.Tahir Sezen, ''Osmanlı Yer Adları'', Ankara 2017, T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü Yayın No: 2
''s.v.'', p. 814
/ref> The Bulgarian name was ''Krastopole'' bg, Кръстополе 'cross field'. Its name was

Hellenized Hellenization (other British spelling Hellenisation) or Hellenism is the adoption of Greek culture, religion, language and identity by non-Greeks. In the ancient period, colonization often led to the Hellenization of indigenous peoples; in the ...

as Stavroupolis 'cross city' in May, 1920, soon after it was ceded to Greece.Institute for Neohellenic Research, "Name Changes of Settlements in Greece"
''s.v.''
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Notable people

* George Papassavas (1924) painter *

Katerina Sakellaropoulou Katerina Sakellaropoulou ( el, Κατερίνα Σακελλαροπούλου, Latn, el, Katerína Sakellaropoúlou, ; born 30 May 1956) is a Greek judge who has been the president of Greece since 13 March 2020. She was elected by the Hellenic ...

(2020) The first female president of Hellenic republic

References

External links

Δήμος Σταυρούπολης (in Greek and English)
Populated places in Xanthi (regional unit) {{EMacedoniaThrace-geo-stub el:Δήμος Ξάνθης#Ενότητα Σταυρούπολης