Rizia

Rizia (Greek: Ρίζια) is a village in the municipality of Vyssa in the northern part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece. Rizia is connected with two roads connecting the GR-51 (Alexandroupoli - Orestiata - Nea Vyssa - Ormenio). The area are flat. The Arda River flows to the north.

Location
Rizia is located about 5 km southwest of the Turkish border and about 15 km southwest of Edirne, north of Orestiada, north-northeast of Alexandroupoli and about 1,015 km northeast of Athens (old: 1,015 km) and east-southeast of Ormenio, the Bulgarian border and Svilengrad.

Nearest place

 * Kastanies, northeast (distance: 3 km)
 * Kavyli, south (distance: 4 km)
 * Fylakio west (distance: 10 km)
 * Plati, northwest

History
The origin of the name dates back to the ancient times as a warriors of Vissa. Older homes were built with a stylistic kind. The family of Konstantinos Karatheodoris were descended from Vosnochori.

Its name during the Ottoman rule was known as Dujaros, or the same (Dudzharos, Дуджарос) in Bulgarian). It was annexed to Greece between 1912 and 1920, many of the Bulgarians were pushed northward.  During the Greco Turkish War (1919-1922), refugees east of the Evros river and from Asia Minor rarely arrived into the village.  It became entirely Rizia after the annexation.  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 lost three fourths of its population between 1981 and 1991 and two thirds between 1991 and 2001 totaling to nearly half between 1981 and 2001, its inhabitants left for the larger cities and outside Greece.