Zoni, Evros

Zoni (Greek: Ζώνη, Bulgarian: Чаушкьой Čauškoj, Turkish: Çavuşkoy), also with an o accented 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. Zoni is in the municipality of Kyprinos. Zoni is linked with the road connecting GR-51/E85 (Alexandroupoli - Soufli - Orestiada - Ormenio) near Ormenio and Komara. Bulgaria is bordered a few kilometres to the west. Its 2001 population was 238 for the village and 811 for the municipal district. The eastern portion are flat, the remainder of the area are hilly.

Settlements

 * Chelidona
 * Mikra Doxipara

Nearest places

 * Fylakio

History
The village was founded by the Ottoman Turks. Its inhabitants were 3/4 Bulgarian and 1/4 Turkish before the village was annexed by Greece from Bulgaria in 1920 and before the aftermath of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922). Greek refugees east of the Evros river and from Asia Minor arrived into the village. Its Turkish originated name changed its name to its current Greek form Zoni afterwards. 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 lost three fourths of its population between 1981 and 1991 and two thirds between 1991 and 2001 totaling to four fifths between 1981 and 2001; its inhabitants left for the larger cities and outside Greece.

Other
Zoni has a nearby school, church, banks, a post office, and a square (plateia). Its nearest lyceum (middle school) and gymnasium (secondary school) are in Kyprinos.