Petrota
Petrota is a village at the northernmost point of Greece, part of the municipal unit Trigono. It was created around 1530 by Greeks that moved there from Epirus and Malta.- Type: Village with 312 residents
- Description: village in Evros, Greece
- Postal code: 68007
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mezek and Pentalofos.
Mezek
Village
Mezek is a village in southeastern Bulgaria, part of Svilengrad municipality, Haskovo Province. It lies at the foot of the eastern Rhodope Mountains, just north of the Bulgaria–Greece border and not far west of the Bulgaria–Turkey border. Mezek is situated 6 km northwest of Petrota.
Pentalofos
Village
Pentalofos is a village in the northern part of the Evros regional unit in Greece. Pentalofos is in the municipal unit of Trigono. It is close to the border with Bulgaria. The nearest larger village is Ormenio to its north. Pentalofos is situated 7 km southeast of Petrota.
Ormenio
Village
Ormenio is the northernmost place in all of Greece. It is part of the municipal unit of Trigono in the Evros regional unit of Thrace. It is situated near the right bank of the river Evros, which forms the border with Bulgaria here. Ormenio is situated 7 km northeast of Petrota.
Petrota
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Orestiada, Evros, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
41.69443° or 41° 41′ 40″ north
Longitude
26.1362° or 26° 8′ 10″ east
Population
312
Elevation
190 metres (623 feet)
Open location code
8GH8M4VP+QF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Turkish—“Petrota” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Карабаа”
- Dutch: “Petrota”
- Finnish: “Petrotá (Évros)”
- Finnish: “Petrotá”
- French: “Petrota”
- French: “Petrotá”
- German: “Petrota”
- Greek: “Καράμπαγ”
- Greek: “Πετρωτά Έβρου”
- Greek: “Πετρωτά”
- Irish: “Petrota”
- Italian: “Petrota”
- Russian: “Πетрοта”
- Russian: “Карампаг”
- Russian: “Петрота”
- Turkish: “Petrota, Evros”
- Turkish: “Petrota”
- “Karámpag”
- “Petrotá”
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