15 Facts About Xanthi

Xanthi is a city in the region of Western Thrace, northeastern Greece.

The "Old Town of Xanthi" is known throughout Greece for its distinctive architecture, combining many Byzantine Greek churches with neoclassical mansions of Greek merchants from the 18th and 19th centuries and Ottoman-Era mosques.

Xanthi is famous throughout Greece for its annual spring carnival which has a significant role in the city's economy.

Xanthi is sometimes identified with the ancient city of Xantheia mentioned in the 1st century BC by the geographer Strabo, but it was not mentioned by any other ancient historian.

The population of the region of Xanthi had dwindled down to almost nothing, as the region was depopulated in the 3rd century AD and almost everything had been destroyed when the Ottomans conquered the region in 1361.

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Xanthi featured in the campaign of Andronikos II Palaiologos in 1327.

On 8 April 1941 the 164th Infantry Division captured Xanthi following the German invasion of Greece and the Germans passed the city to Bulgaria, who occupied the whole region east of Strymonas, except a small German zone near the border with Turkey.

On 4 March 1943 the Jews of Xanthi were arrested by the Bulgarians and imprisoned in a tobacco warehouse.

Nowadays Xanthi is a modern city, rich in history, traditions and customs, and with many attractions for the visitors .

Xanthi is known as the city of a thousand colours, and like Komotini and Didymoteicho has a large population of Turkish-speaking Muslims.

Outside Xanthi is the Xanthi railway station on the Thessaloniki-Alexandroupoli line, with daily services to Thessaloniki and Alexandroupolis.

Municipality Xanthi was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 2 former municipalities, that became municipal units:.

Municipal unit Xanthi is subdivided into the communities Evmoiro, Kimmeria and Xanthi.

Xanthi's Carnival is very popular and is one of the most popular in Greece, while the "old town festival" is equally famous.

Furthermore, the bazaar of Xanthi is famous and takes place at Emboriou Square every Saturday.