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Komotini

Also known as Gümülcine

Komotini is a city in Western Thrace in north-eastern Greece, capital of the region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. Under Ottoman rule, as Gümülcine, it had a mainly Muslim population, and in 1913 it was the seat of the short-lived Provisional Government of Western Thrace. It passed to Bulgaria and then to Greece in 1920, and it remains the centre of Greece's Muslim minority.

Komotini
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Provisional Government of Western Thrace

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Komotini. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/komotini
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