title: Kechros
text: # Kechros
  
  Kechros (Greek: Κέχρος; Bulgarian: Мерикос, romanized: Merikos) is a village and a former community in the Rhodope regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Arriana, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 140.617 $km^2.$ It has a population of 1,222, as of 2011.
  
  