Ampelakia, Evros

Ampelakia (Greek: Αμπελάκια meaning vineyards) is a village in the municipality of Orestiada in the northern part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece. Ampelakia is connected with two roads connecting the GR-51 (Alexandroupoli - Orestiada - Nea Vyssa - Ormenio). The area are mainly made up of hills and mountains, farmlands dominate the area.

Location
Ampelakia is located about 14 km west of Orestiada, 25 km northwest of Didymoteicho, km southwest of the Turkish border and Edirne, north-northeast of Alexandroupoli and about 1,000 km northeast of Athens and east-southeast of Ormenio, the Bulgarian border and Svilengrad.

Nearest place

 * Patagi, east-northeast (distance: 4 km)
 * Poimeniko, south (distance: 2 km)
 * Chionades, west
 * Valtos, north

History
Its name during the Ottoman period was Kouliaklis. It was annexed to Greece in 1920. Its population were made up of Bulgarians, Turks and Greeks, refugees east of the Evros river and from Asia Minor rarely arrived into the village during the Asia Minor Catastrophe and the Bulgarians and the Turks left, its population became entirely Greek. It became entirely Ampelakia 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 decline in population was several in the prefecture that did not lost as much, it lost by a tiny bit 14% 1991 and 2001, down from 16% between 1981 and 1991.