Pentalofos, Evros

Pentalofos (Πεντάλοφος meaning the five hills) is a village in the northwestern part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece located west of Turkey and Edirne, southeast of Ormenio and Svilengrad, Bulgaria, north of Alexandroupoli and east of Kurdzhali, Bulgaria, Athens, the Greek capital is nearly 1,100 km northeast. Plati is linked with the road connecting GR-51/E85 (Alexandroupoli - Soufli - Orestiada - Ormenio) and several villages including Pentalofos. Plati is also in the municipality of Trigono. Its 2001 population was 477 for the village nearly 10% or one in ten inhabitants of the municipality. Pentalofos is located west of the Evros valley and divides the valley and mountains to the west, Bulgaria is bordered to the west. Pentalofos is the one of the northernmost places in Greece.

Nearest places

 * Ormenio, north
 * Ptelea, northeast
 * Plati, south

History
The village was founded by the Ottoman Turks, its name was known as (Бештепе Beshtele, Turkish: Beştele). The village battled with the Turks and handed to the Bulgarians. At the end of the Bulgarian rule, Bulgarians moved northward into the remainder of Bulgaria which is now north, the remainder of the Turks were pushed to the western portion of today's Turkey. During the Greco Turkish War (1919-1922), refugees east of the Evros river and from Asia Minor arrived into the village. It became entirely Pentalofos immediately after the annexation. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, many of its buildings were rebuilt. Electricity After World War II and the Greek Civil War, many of its buildings were rebuilt. Electricity and automobiles arrived in the 1960s, it was linked with pavement in the late-20th century, television arrived in the 1980s. Internet and computers arrived in the late-1990s. The village's population lost by nearly 1/3 between 1991 and 2001.