Kavyli

Kavyli (Greek: Καβύλη) is a village in the southern part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece, it is also in the municipality of Vyssa and is connected wityh the GR-51 (Alexandroupoli - Orestiata - Nea Vyssa - Ormenio). Kavyli is linked with the GR-2 old road (Florina - Thessaloniki - Kavala - Alexandroupoli) and the Egnatia Odos (E90) with its only interchange. Its 2001 population was 545 for the settlement and 1,120 for the municipal district. The area are flat with the exception to the north, the Aegean Sea along with the Thracian Gulf is situated 5 km to the south.

Location
Kavyli is located southwest of the Turkish border and about 10 to 15 km southwest of Edirne, north of Orestiada, north-northeast of Alexandroupoli and about 1,000 km northeast of Athens (old: 1,005 km) and east-southeast of Ormenio, the Bulgarian border and Svilengrad. Loutros is located south of Soufli and nearly south of Orestiada, west of the Turkish border and Keşan and east of Alexandroupoli, Kavala and Thessaloniki.

Settlements

 * Loutra Traianoupoleos
 * Pefka

Nearest place

 * Nea Vyssa, northeast
 * Sterna, west

Emblem
Its seal or emblem featurews a laurel leaf stem with a yellow to orange logo with a green circle reading the Greek name of the municipality. The main figure Konstantinos Karatheodoris is portrayed in the middle village lined away from the Pentagon shape. The two rivers Arda and Evros is at the top.

History
The village was founded by the Ottoman Turks, its name was known as Emirler (Емирлер in Bulgarian). It was annexed to Greece between 1912 and 1920, it was located near the line where it had the Greek population prior to the annexation. During the Greco Turkish War (1919-1922), refugees east of the Evros river and from Asia Minor arrived into the village. It became entirely Kavyli 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. Kavyli joined the municipality of Vyssa in the late 1990s.