DOXATO

 

HISTORICAL AND PHOTOGRAPHIC RETROSPECTIONS IN THE DOXATO

 

PRESENTATION

 

The driver that you keep in your hands and the role that aspires it plays is remember oldest and inform the younger the old traditional and real and magnificent  way of life of  Doxato. The Doxato is a gorgeous town that despite the back stabs that it accepts for so much years accomplishes he stands proud and it bears the palm of most beautiful regions confirming for still a time that regions as that of Doxato are not to be degraded never.

His locality is found in the rich plain of prefecture Dramas among four mountains, Falakro-Menoikio-Pagaio-Lekani.

It deserves it is marked that the growth of Doxato begins from the years of Ottoman domination. In the 1600 it is already a rich and beautiful town, while afterwards 1821 the region progresses in all almost the sectors. Unfortunately however the growth does not keep for a long time as the village enslaved and is destroyed by the Bulgarians. In this period it underwent a lot of pillages, slaughters and absolute destructions. His liberation by the turks in 1913 succeeds a period cultural, economic and intellectual blossoming that is continued up to today.

So much in pre-war times but also after the war the Doxato is important centre in the region of Drama of but also more widely Eastern Macedonia.

Today Doxato is a enough evolved town that numbers around in the 3500 thousands residents. The structure of society is urban and few henceforth residents involve in the traditional culture of tobacco, something that older they were the unique occupation of Doxato and only this it offered the wealth in the residents.

This driver is a first work that concerns the old and new Doxato.  A driver made with a lot of labour, patience and optimism for the future from all us.

A driver that  inform us for one from the older and more beautiful regions of Greece.

Good travel therefore, in these "historical ways of Doxato".