Elaia, Evros

Elaia (Ελαία meaning olives, Bulgarian: Делиелес Turkish and Bulgarian Romanization: Delneles) also with the i 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. Plati is linked with the road connecting GR-51/E85 (Alexandroupoli - Soufli - Orestiada - Ormenio) and a road connecting Dikaia and Fylaki. Elaia is in the municipality of Trigono. The village is located north of the Arda River. Its 2001 population was 532 for the village. Much of the area are flat, the remainder of the area are hilly.

Nearest places

 * Spilaio, north
 * Plati, east-northeast
 * Pentalofos, west
 * Fylaki, south

History
The village was founded during the Ottoman period by the Turks, its population was Bulgarian and Turkish. After its annexation to Greece, many Greeks from east of the Evros river began to inhabit the area. 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 population lost by over half between 1981 and 2001.