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Thrace (Greece)

Thrace district
Evros prefecture (nomos)
Turkish minority in Western Thrace

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Greece

Thrace district

Reported flag of the Thrace district - Image by Jaume Ollé, 20 July 2003

I just want to stress out that the flags given for Thrace and Evros are not existent. Being Greek and a student of both history and law, I can be fairly certain that these designs are not in use. At least not officialy.

Angelos Mastorakis, 20 July 2003

Evros prefecture (nomos)

Reported flag of the Evros prefecture - Image by Dirk Schönberger, 20 July 2003

The alleged flag of the Prefecture of Evros has on its emblem the writing:

Orestiada 1923
Iphigenia

The names refer of course to the tragical fatum of the Atrides family, Orestes and Iphigenia being Agamemnon and Clytemnestra's children (along with Electra). Agamemnon was King of Mycenes and Argos, which are located in Peloponnesis paeninsula, very far from Thrace. Iphigenia was sacrified in Aulis, in Beotia, also very far from Thrace.

In 1923, by the treaty of Lausanne, Greece had to cede eastern Thrace to Turkey, which might explain the date on the emblem. The relation with the Atrides remains very mysterious for me.

Ivan Sache, 20 July 2003

Turkish minority in Western Thrace

Flag of the Turkish Minority in Western Thrace - Image by Pascal Vagnat, 12 March 1999

The Turkish of Western Thrace (calling themselves Bati Trakya Türkleri) are a minority of 150.000 people in this Greek province. They are speaking a Turkish dialect and are Sunni Muslims.

The flag of the short-lived Republic of Gumuljina is being put forth nowadays as the flag of the Turkish minority in Western Thrace.

Jan Patrick Fischer, 9 October 2005