Orestias
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 41.677, 26.556
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
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History
Orestias, later refounded by Hadrian as Adrianople, was an ancient Greek settlement next to the Evros river in Thrace, near or at the site of present-day Edirne, and close to the current border between Turkey and Greece.