Orfeas

Orfeas (Greek: Ορφέας), named after the mythical musician Orpheus, is a former municipality in the Evros regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece.

[3] It is located in the north-central part of Evros, and borders both southeastern Bulgaria and northwestern Turkey.

Much of the land is mountainous and forested to the west, extending up to the Rhodope regional unit.

[citation needed] Forests dominate the river banks and parts of the plain.

The municipal unit Orfeas is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets):