Παπαθεοδώρου, Μέτρες, Σωζούπολη, Γέφυρα (1991)
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Εμμανουήλ Παπαθεοδώρου, πρωτοπρεσβύτερος, Μέτρες, Σωζούπολη, Γέφυρα (Θεσσαλονίκη 1991)
Emmanuel Papatheodorou, Arch-Priest, Metrai, Sozopolis, Gephyra (Thessaloniki 1991) in Greek.
Metrai (Turk. Çatalca) is a town in Eastern Thrace / European Turkey, W of Istanbul. Sozopolis (Sozopol) is a town in Northern Thrace on the Bulgarian coast of the Black Sea. In 1924 the Christian Orthodox population of Çatalca was obliged to abandon its home-town after the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne, in contrast to those of Sozopolis, where approximately half the population of Greek descent was kicked out in 1926 and the others were allowed to stay. They all settled in Topsin, an old ottoman estate by the River Axios, in Macedonia. Thus Topsin became a refugee settlement renamed Gephyra (today Gefyra) and in 1928 it became a Community.
Conscious of the importance of the relics brought from their home-land, but even more of the fact that the first refugee generation constitutes a primary source of information, Arch-Priest Emmanuel Papatheodorou, gathered as many facts as he could and wrote this small book (an amateur work and a private edition). The first part of the book is dedicated to Metrai / Çatalca pp. 3-51 (from where the valuable ecclesiastical relics are kept in the church of the Virgin Revmatokratousa), the second part to Sozopolis / Sozopol pp. 52-96 and the background of the narration is Gefyra, the new home.
Total pages 106, BW photos