Dedeağaç

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Dedeağaç is the former Ottoman-era name of the modern Greek port city of Alexandroupoli, located in northeastern Greece near the border with Turkey.

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Dedeağaç canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf former city name
historical place name
correspondsTo Alexandroupoli
country Ottoman Empire
historicalPeriod late Ottoman era
languageOfName Ottoman Turkish
Turkish
locatedIn Macedonia (Ottoman Empire)
Rumelia
linked to: Rumelia Eyalet

Western Thrace
linked to: Thrace
locatedInPresentDay Eastern Macedonia and Thrace
Greece
locatedNear border with Turkey
locatedOn Aegean Sea
Thracian Sea
modernName Alexandroupoli
near Evros River
Maritsa River
linked to: Maritsa
partOf Ottoman Thrace
linked to: Rumelia Eyalet
presentIn 19th-century geographical records
Ottoman maps
region northeastern Greece (present-day)
role port city
strategicImportance Aegean port close to Dardanelles
successor Alexandroupoli municipality
transportRole railway junction in Ottoman period
usedBy Ottoman administration
Turkish speakers

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Alexandroupoli originalName Dedeağaç