Vyssa is a former municipality in the Evros peripheral unit, East Macedonia and Thrace

East Macedonia and Thrace

East Macedonia and Thrace is one of the thirteen regions of Greece. It consists of the northeastern parts of the country, comprising the eastern part of the region of Macedonia along with the region of Thrace, and the islands of Thasos and Samothrace....

, Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Orestiada

Orestiada

Orestiada is the northeasternmost and northernmost city of Greece and the second largest city of the Evros peripheral unit of Thrace. The population is around 25,000. Orestiada is only 2 km west of the banks of the Evros, which forms a natural border between Greece and Turkey...

, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 8,184 (2001). The seat of the municipality was in Nea Vyssa

Nea Vyssa

Nea Vyssa is a village in the southern part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece. It was the seat of the municipality of Vyssa from the late 1990s until 2011. Nea Vyssa is connected by 2 roads to the GR-51 and has a road link to Edirne in Turkey...

. It is named after a former village on the other side of the Evros

Maritsa

The Maritsa or Evros , ) is, with a length of 480 km, the longest river that runs solely in the interior of the Balkans. It has its origin in the Rila Mountains in Western Bulgaria, flowing southeast between the Balkan and Rhodope Mountains, past Plovdiv and Parvomay to Edirne, Turkey...

 river that is now Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. Refugees from that side fled into this area and settled into these villages.