Overview

Capital of the prefecture is Komotini that on Ottoman domination was named Goumourtzina. Today it is a modern city that combines harmoniously the European and Eastern element in architecture, in tradition, in culture and people.

The history of the city begins in the meta-christian centuries with the foundation of a small settlement and the construction of a Byzantine fortress that gives the city the opportunity to develope. Later during the Ottoman domination Komotini became the most important center in the region developing the agriculture and the livestock-farming. It is finally incorporated with Greece in 1920 with the rest of Thrace.