Alexandroupolis Marks Anniversary of Union with Greece

A immense Greek emblem successful Alexandroupolis marks national with Greece. File photo. Credit: e-evros.tv

The metropolis of Alexandroupolis successful northeast Greece marked connected Thursday the 106th day of its national with Greece with a subject and pupil parade attended by authorities and section officials, arsenic good arsenic representatives of the Orthodox Church.

“Alexandroupolis and Evros service arsenic Greece’s geopolitical armor, acting contiguous arsenic a captious gateway connecting the state to the Balkans, arsenic good arsenic Central and Eastern Europe,” stated the President of the Republic, Konstantinos Tasoulas. Attending the celebrations connected May 14, 2026, helium added: “Alexandroupolis honors its state by serving some arsenic a shield for the federation and arsenic a pillar of maturation and planetary outreach for Thrace and Greece arsenic a whole.”

The President attended the authoritative Te Deum (Doxology) for the ‘Eleftheria’ of Alexandroupolis astatine the Metropolitan Church of Saint Nicholas, led by Metropolitan Anthimos. Military guards of grant paid tribute extracurricular the cathedral and astatine the Domna Visviki Memorial. The lawsuit concluded with a parade of subject units, students, and section organizations earlier the President.

The superior of the Evros determination portion is the largest metropolis successful Greek Thrace and the portion of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, with a colonisation of implicit 70,000 and is an important larboard and commercialized halfway for northeastern Greece.

The turbulent modern past of Alexandroupolis

During the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), it was concisely captured by the Russians. Ottoman regularisation ended with the First Balkan War, erstwhile the metropolis was captured by Bulgaria successful 1912. In the Second Balkan War, Greece took power of the city. With the Treaty of Bucharest (10 August 1913), the metropolis returned backmost to Bulgaria.

With the decision of Bulgaria successful World War I, the metropolis came nether Greek power for the 2nd time. In 1920, the metropolis was renamed to grant the King of Greece, Alexander. With the Treaty of Lausanne successful 1923, Alexandroupolis became an authoritative portion of Greece.

A cardinal attraction and awesome of the metropolis is the Lighthouse (recognized arsenic a taste practice monument successful 2013) located connected the city’s promenade (Megalou Alexandrou Street).

The imposing lighthouse of Alexandroupolis. Credit: Kyriakos162 , CC BY-SA 3.0

It was built successful 1850 and started operating successful 1880, built connected the occidental broadside of the city’s harbor to facilitate the coasting of section sailors who traveled to the country of Hellespont.

Greek metropolis becomes US, NATO and vigor hub

The larboard of Alexandroupolis plays a captious relation in the subject beingness of the US and NATO successful Greece, particularly since the Russian penetration of Ukraine. NATO and US forces usage the Greek metropolis arsenic a transit and logistic spot for troops that determination to cardinal Europe for grooming and exercises.

In addition, Alexandroupoli is becoming an energy hub for the Balkans and Eastern Europe. The floating retention regasification portion (FSRU) astatine Alexandroupolis received the archetypal shipment of liquefied earthy state (LNG) successful February.

The FSRU is connected to the 28-kilometer-long high-pressure subsea and onshore state transmission pipeline, which, erstwhile operational, volition present earthy state to the Greek Transmission System (NNGTS) and onwards to the last consumers successful Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, North Macedonia, Serbia and further to Moldova and Ukraine to the East and Hungary and Slovakia to the West.