Traianoupoli

Traianoupoli, also spelled Traianopolis in Thrace, Trajanopolis or Trajanople, was a city in the Evros regional unit of East Macedonia and Thrace in northeastern Greece, at the place now called Loutra Traianoupoleos. The Roman emperor Trajan, who reigned from 98 to 117, founded it near the ancient town of Doriscus and gave it his name, and in the Roman period it was famous for its baths. By the 4th century it was the capital and metropolitan see of the Roman province of Rhodope, a rank it kept until its decline in the 14th century. It was destroyed in 1205 or 1207 by Tsar Kaloyan of Bulgaria, was raided again in the 1320s, and had lain abandoned for several years by the winter of 1343 to 1344. Around 1375 to 1385 the Ottoman Gazi Evrenos built an inn and a bathhouse on the site, and the bathhouse still survives. The name was also borne by a municipality that existed from 1997 to 2011 and is now a municipal unit of Alexandroupolis.