Ellinochori (Greek: Ελληνοχώρι meaning Greek village; formerly Βουλγάρκιοϊ, Bulgarian: Булгаркьой or Балъ Булгаркьой, Turkish: Bulgarkoj or Balı-Bulgarköy, Bulgarian village) is a village in the northeastern part of the Evros regional unit in Greece. Ellinochori is part of the municipality of Didymoteicho. It is situated on the left bank of the river Erythropotamos, northwest of the centre of Didymoteicho. In 2021 its population was 1,060 for the community, including the villages Lagos and Thyrea.
Population
Year
Population village
Population community
1981
1,435
-
1991
854
-
2001
756
2,372
2011
593
1,373
2021
506
1,060
History
Bulgarian refugees from Bulgarkyoi (nowadays Elinohori, north-western Greece), expelled by the Ottoman forces, 1913.
The village was founded by the Ottoman Turks and named after its mostly Bulgarian population. It was ceded to Bulgaria in 1915 along with the rest of the lower Evros (Maritsa) valley, but following the 1919 Treaty of Neuilly it became part of Greece. As a result its Bulgarian and Turkish population was exchanged with Greek refugees, mainly from today's Turkey.
^Ethnographie des Vilayets d'Andrinople, de Monastir et de Salonique, 1878, reprint in Bulgarian: „Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 г.“ Македонски научен институт, София, 1995, стр. 54-55
