Feres
Feres is a town and a former municipality in the Evros regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Alexandroupolis, of which it is a municipal unit.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,210 residents
- Description: town and a former municipality in Evros, Greece
- Also known as: “Férai”, “Feres, Evros”, “Férrai”, and “Pherrai”
- Postal code: 68500
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Doriscus and Pylaia.
Doriscus
Village
Photo: Aristomakos, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Doriscus was a settlement in ancient Thrace, on the northern shores of Aegean Sea, in a plain west of the river Hebrus. It was notable for remaining in Persian hands for many years after the Second Persian invasion of Greece, and remained thus known as the last Persian stronghold in Europe. Doriscus is situated 6 km southwest of Feres.
Pylaia
Village
Pylaia is a village in the municipal unit of Feres, in the southern part of the Evros regional unit, northeastern Greece. In 2021 its population was 102 for the community, including the villages Melia and Koila. Pylaia is situated 6 km northwest of Feres.
Feres
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Alexandroupoli, Evros, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
40.89419° or 40° 53′ 39″ northLongitude
26.17407° or 26° 10′ 27″ eastPopulation
5,210Elevation
30 metres (98 feet)United Nations Location Code
GR FEROpen location code
8GG8V5VF+MJOpenStreetMap ID
node 139260653OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Feres” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فيرس”
- Asturian: “Feres”
- Bulgarian: “Фере”
- Catalan: “Feres (Hebros)”
- Catalan: “Feres”
- Cebuano: “Féres”
- Chinese: “费雷斯 (埃夫罗斯）”
- Dutch: “Feres”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فيرس”
- Finnish: “Féres (Évros)”
- Finnish: “Féres”
- French: “Phères”
- German: “Feres”
- Greek: “Βήρα”
- Greek: “Φέραι”
- Greek: “Φέρες Έβρου”
- Greek: “Φέρες”
- Italian: “Feres”
- Japanese: “フェレス”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Féres i Evros”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Féres i Évros”
- Persian: “فریس (اوروس)”
- Persian: “فریس”
- Portuguese: “Feres”
- Romanian: “Feres”
- Russian: “Вира”
- Russian: “Фере”
- Russian: “Ферре”
- Russian: “Ферры”
- Spanish: “Feres”
- Swedish: “Féres”
- Turkish: “Farecik”
- Turkish: “Ferecik”
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