Greek National Road 65 (), abbreviated as the EO65, is a national road in the Central Macedonia region of Greece. The EO65 connects Thessaloniki with and the border with North Macedonia near Doirani, via Kilkis.
Route
The EO65 is officially defined as a national road that branches off the EO2 in Diavata (west of Thessaloniki), and heads north towards Kilkis. From there, the EO65 continues to Drosato, where it splits into two branches: the western branch leads to the border with North Macedonia near Doirani; the eastern branch runs parallel with the Thessaloniki–Alexandroupolis railway to the bridge over the Strymonas near ), where it connects with the EO63 and the A25 motorway.
History
Ministerial Decision G25871 of 9 July 1963 created the EO65 from the old EO39, which existed by royal decree from 1955 until 1963, and followed the same route as the current EO65, from Diavata to Kilkis. The northern end of the EO65 was later extended in two phases, from Kilkis to Rodopoli and the border with North Macedonia at Doirani on 15 December 1995, and from Rodopoli to the bridge over the Strymonas near in 1998: the extension from Kilkis to the Strymonas bridge took over some of the Kilkis regional unit's provincial roads.
Liti–Nea Santa National Road
The Liti–Nea Santa National Road () is an unnumbered branch of the EO65 around the boundary between the Kilkis and Thessaloniki regional units, running from Nea Santa in the north to and the EO12 in the south: the branch is about long. One-way segments count as half the total distance and link roads are not counted. The Liti–Nea Santa National Road was created by Ministerial Decision DMEO/e/O/1308 of 15 December 1995, making it part of the secondary national network, and was numbered the EO65β (in Thessaloniki) and EO65γ (in Kilkis) for statistical purposes by the National Statistical Service of Greece (ESYE).
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