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|name = Kyprinos
|name_local = Κυπρίνος
|type = municipal unit
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|municipality = [[Orestiada]]
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'''Kyprinos
==Name origin==
The Turkish name of Kyprinos was at first "Simavna", after "Sarihadir". Kyprinos was once called "Sarihadir" what means "yellow Hadir". Hadir is Hidir who was an Islamic religious figure. His holiday was celebrated at the same day the Greek Christian Saint [[St. George]]'s holiday was celebrated (April, 23rd). St. George was and still is the guardian Saint of the village Kyprinos and also its church' name-giver. So the Turkish just interpreted Kyprinos as the village with the yellow church -which indeed was made out of yellow stones- meaning [[St. George]], whom they considered to be something like the religious person whom they knew as Hadir. The church is still there down in the valley and can be visited at any time. When the great flood of the 1920s destroyed every house of the village which at that time was also located in the valley not a single building resisted its power except for that church.
The Greek name "Kyprinos" means "carp". It is not clear whether that name was given to the village because of the [[carp]]s found in the nearby [[Arda (Maritsa)|Ardas]] river or for some other reasons.
The name is rendered in [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]] as Саръхадър, ''
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The municipal unit Kyprinos is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets):<ref name=Kallikratis/>
*Kyprinos (Kyprinos, Galini)
*[[Fylakio]] (Fylakio, Keramos,
*[[
==Population==
{| class=wikitable
! Year !! Town population !!
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| 1981 || 1,926 || -
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| 2001 || 1,157 || 2,915
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| 2011 || 806 || 2,226
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| 2021 || 571 || 1,732
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The villages of and around Kyprinos are assumed to have been there for many centuries and what can certainly be said is that in the documents of the late 18th century found in different archives, both Greek and Turkish, Kyprinos itself and most of the nearby villages are already mentioned. Even though it is not clear when the first ones were founded since historical sources are rare and barely explicit.
However, there is evidence that in the Ancient world there already were settlements in that area. Excavations near the village of Mikri Doxipara - Zoni have brought interesting pieces of ancient Thracian culture ([[Thrace]]) into the light. The [[Tomb|Tombs]] found in that place (8 km from Kyprinos, between Zoni and Mikri Doxipara) are estimated to be from the 1st or 2nd century AD.
[[Sheikh Bedreddin]] (1359–1420), also known as Sheikh Bedreddin, was born in Kyprinos, son of a local g(h)azi (warrior), whose name was Israel. He was a famous Sufi teacher and a rebel against the Ottoman central rule.
The modern municipality was founded in 1998 will be celebrating its 10th anniversary of its founding in 2008.▼
▲The modern municipality was founded in 1998
==The river of Ardas==
The river of
The Ardas river composes an important ecosystem for that area and its forest which is growing corresponding to its river bed. It is a biotope of crucial importance on a regional as well as on a national level.
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070809050828/http://www.kyprinos.gr/ Official Website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071013020145/http://alex.eled.duth.gr/
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Geographic location
|Centre = Kyprinos
|North = [[Trigono]]
|Northeast = [[Vyssa]]
[[Category:Evros Prefecture]]▼
|East = [[Orestiada]]
[[Category:Populated places in the Evros Prefecture]]▼
|Southeast =
|South = [[Metaxades]]
|Southwest =
|West = [[Ivaylovgrad]] (Bulgaria)
|Northwest =
}}
{{Orestiada div}}
[[Category:Bulgaria–Greece border crossings]]
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