Xanthi (regional unit)

Xanthi (Greek Ξάνθη ) is one of six regional districts of the Greek region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Xanthi to the main town. Xanthi was created in 1944 as a spin- out of the prefecture of Rodopi. Until 1994, he formed a prefecture, then it was merged into the prefect elections in 1994 with the prefectures of Drama and Kavala Prefecture About Drama - Kavala - Xanthi. With the administrative reform of 2010, the prefectures were abolished and made their responsibilities to the region and considerably enlarged by amalgamation municipalities. The Regional District is sending nine deputies in the regional, but also has no political significance. Xanthi includes the municipalities Avdira, Myki, Topiros and Xanthi.

The population of the regional district shall be composed next to the Greek majority and from Turks, Roma and a dialect of the Bulgarian language -speaking Pomaks. The area was claimed for a long time not only of Greece, but also from Bulgaria and Turkey. The area belongs to the " new countries," the first 1912/1913 finally came to Greece after the end of the Second Balkan War by the Treaty of London, which led to a population exchange especially between the countries of Greece and Bulgaria, through which the population largely Greek been.

An important conservation area forms the Vistonida Sea to the southeast of the district.