Ormenio

Ormenio (Ορμένιο, formerly, Orménion) is the northernmost place in all of Greece. It is located in the municipality of Trigono in the Evros Prefecture. The Bulgarian border is to the north. Ormenio is located west-northwest of Orestiada, about 200 km north of Alexandroupoli, about 40 km west of Edirne, Turkey and southeast of Svilengrad in Bulgaria. The population are mainly of mixed ancestry. Ormenio is linked with the GR-51/E85 (Alexandroupoli - Soufli - Orestiada - Ormeni) and by the customs is the northernmost terminus of the highway but not for the E85 connecting with a highway to Svilengrad and Varna in Bulgaria and also connects with the A1 superhighway linking Sofia and Edirne with the Ö2 superhighway, (both are E80). The Evros river forms the border with Bulgaria to the north, and the land boundary is to the northwest. It was called "Çirmen" in Turkish.

Nearest places

 * Ptelea, east-southeast
 * Plati, south
 * Svilengrad, Bulgaria, north-northwest

History
In 1371 it was the site of the battle of Chernomen in which the Bulgarian-Serb army under Ivan Uglesha and Valkashin was decisively defeated by the Ottomans. In 1878 it was inhabited by 870 Bulgarians and 120 Ottomans. After the Ottoman Rule, the village was annexed to Bulgaria and was a part of the southeastern portion until 1919, when the village was ceded to Greece and separated from Bulgaria and became a border town with a border to the north, as part of the European Imperialists plans to carve up the Ottoman Empire. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, many of its buildings were rebuilt. In 1997 under the Capodistrian Plan, the community of Ormenio became the new municipality of Trigono with 16 other former communities.

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.