Dikaia is a village in the northwestern part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece located west of Turkey

Turkey

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 and Edirne

Edirne

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, southeast of Ormenio

Ormenio

Ormenio is the northernmost place in all of Greece. It is located in the municipal unit of Trigono in the Evros Prefecture of Thrace, immediately south of the Bulgarian border. Ormenio is located west-northwest of Orestiada, about 200 km north of Alexandroupoli, about 40 km west of...

 and Svilengrad

Svilengrad

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, Bulgaria, north of Alexandroupoli

Alexandroupoli

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 and east of Kurdzhali, Bulgaria. Athens

Athens

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, the Greek capital, is nearly 1,100 km southwest. Dikaia is on the GR-51

National Road 51 (Greece)

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/E85

European route E85

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 (Alexandroupoli - Soufli - Orestiada - Ormenio) and a road to Pentalofos and Komara

Komara

Komara is a village in the northwestern part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece located south of Svilengrad, Bulgaria west of Orestiada, north of Soufli and north-northeast of Alexandroupoli. Komara is linked with the road connecting to the GR-51/E85 to the east. Komara is in the municipal unit...

. Dikaia was the seat of the municipality of Trigono

Trigono

Trígono is a former municipality in the Evros peripheral unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Orestiada, of which it is a municipal unit. Its population is 6,656 . The seat of the municipality was in Dikaia. Its area is...

. Its 2001 population was 797 for the village and 1,177 for the municipal district. Dikaia is located about 1 km south of the Evros

Evros

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 river and is mainly flat. Across the river is Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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.

Settlements

• Dikaia, pop. 785
• Dilofos, pop. 82
• Krios , pop. 53
• Palli, pop. 241

Nearest places

• Marasia, east
• Spilaio
  Spilaio, Evros
  Spilaio , older forms: -on is a village in the northwestern part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece located west of Edirne , southeast of Ormenio and Svilengrad , north of Alexandroupoli and east of Kurdzhali . It is in the municipal unit of Trigono...
  
  , southwest
• Ptelea
  Ptelea, Evros
  Ptelea 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. Ptelea is linked with the GR-51/E85 . It is part of the municipal unit of Trigono...
  
  , northwest

Population

Year	Village population	Municipal district population
1981	1,693	-
1991	1,058	-
2001	797	1,177

History

After World War II

World War II

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 and the Greek Civil War

Greek Civil War

The Greek Civil War was fought from 1946 to 1949 between the Greek governmental army, backed by the United Kingdom and United States, and the Democratic Army of Greece , the military branch of the Greek Communist Party , backed by Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania...

, 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 reduced by one half between 1981 and 2001.

The Christian Name "Dikaia"

The adjective Dikaia is also given as a Christian name to the females of the island of Symi in the Dodecanese. The name is also frequent in the island of Rhodes only because many inhabitants of Symi have moved to the capital of the Dodecanese. (see also Dikaios Karaiskakis)