Fylakio

Fylakio (Greek, Modern: Φυλάκιο), older form: -on 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. Fylakio is in the municipality of Kyprinos. Fylakio 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 473 for the village and 947 for the municipal district. The eastern portion are flat, the remainder of the area are hilly.

Settlements

 * Fylakio, pop. 468
 * Ammovouno, pop. 179
 * Keramos, pop. 276

Nearest places

 * Zoni

History
Before its annexation to Greece from Bulgaria in 1920 and the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), the village inhabitants were 3/4 Bulgarian and 1/4 Turkish. Greek refugees east of the Evros river and from Asia Minor arrived into the village. 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 declined by over half between 1991 and 2001.