Vathylakkos (Greek: Βαθύλακκος (meaning "deep ditch"), Bulgarian: Ко̀вица, Ко̀вища, Turkish: Kovitsa) is a village in the Drama regional unit, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace region, northern Greece.

[3] Village is situated in the mountains Bozdag, has altitude about 500 metres from the sea level and about 10 kilometers north of the town of Drama, over Monastiraki.

In late 14th century, commander Çandarlı Halil Pasha the Elder who was the first Grand Vizier of Murad I's reign joined the region as Kavala and Selanik in the Ottoman lands.

In early period of Ottoman archives according to Ottoman tax registers "Muhasebe-i Vilayet-i Rum İli Defteri" dated 1530 which was not a census, for various reasons, a big amount of the population (women, children, military) is out of record the region known as Kozniçe.

According to the Greek authorities, population of the village was 589 people in 1913 census data.

All people in the Kovitsa[9] started the journey from the Drama train station to Turkey in summer of 1923.

[10] When its most of Muslim inhabitants left and settled in Kayabaşı and Mahmut Şevket Paşa village in Istanbul, and also others Halitpaşa and Yağcılar in Akhisar in Manisa, Kadıköy in Keşan and some villages of Orhangazi, İznik in Bursa, hence were replaced by entirely Greek 41 refugee families and 131 residents from Turkey.

[11] During the World War II the region was occupied by Bulgarian Army between 1941 and 1944 as most of Thrace.