The village suffered greatly during the 1946–1949 civil war because it was next to Bulgaria. It became the scene of many conflicts in the civil conflict. Many times it was evacuated, it had several victims in the civil war. On 17 June 1947, a group of guerrillas entered Alepochori and burned down the house of a field guard, while he reportedly recruited 35 like-minded people. At the same time, the group was followed by 15 families of the village adjacent to the Communist Party of Greece. However, 7 of the alleged deportees returned to the village. They, fearing the possibility of their violent recruitment, had gone into hiding. Shortly after Christmas, a large group of rebels stormed northern Alepochori, near the Bulgarian border, and took food, loaded onto oxcarts and transported it to the G'okche Bunar site, near the border with Bulgaria. On 15 May 1949, the surrounding area of Metaxades was occupied by the guerrillas and so the inhabitants of the villages of Paliouri, Polia, Avdella and Alepochori had settled in Metaxades. After the civil war, the villagers tried to rebuild the village and succeeded.