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unusual facts about Gorgopotamos, Ioannina



Aetorrachi

Aetorrachi, Ioannina, a village in the Ioannina regional unit, part of the municipal unit Katsanochoria

Anatoli

Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Ioannina, of which it is a municipal unit.

Constantine I of Greece

After lengthy preparations, the Greeks broke through the Ottoman defences in the Battle of Bizani and captured Ioannina and most of Epirus up into what is today southern Albania (Northern Epirus).

Dilofo

Dilofo, Ioannina, a village in the Ioannina regional unit, in the municipal unit Central Zagori

Dodoni Province

Its territory corresponded with that of the current municipalities Dodoni, Ioannina, North Tzoumerka, Zagori and Zitsa, and the municipal units Ano Kalamas, Egnatia (partly) and Kalpaki.

Evrymenes

Evrymenes, Ioannina, a municipal unit in Ioannina regional unit, Greece

Gorgopotamos

The village of Eleftherochori is situated at 800 m above sea level on the slope of Kallidromo.

Gouva, Patras

The GR-8A and the E55 (Athens - Corinth - Patras) as well as the GR-5/E55 (Antirrio - Agrinio - Ioannina) and the GR-48/E65 (Patras - Antirrio - Nafpaktos - Livadia) as well as Panepistimiou Street.

Greek Resistance

These developments emerged most dramatically as the Greek Resistance announced its presence to the world with one of the war's most spectacular sabotage acts, the blowing up of the Gorgopotamos railway bridge, linking northern and southern Greece, on 25 November 1942.

History of the Jews in Greece

The Jewish community in Greece currently amounts to roughly 8,000 people, concentrated mainly in Athens, Thessaloniki (or Salonica), Larissa, Volos, Chalkis, Ioannina, Trikala and Corfu, while very few remain in Kavala and Rhodes.

Hurshid Pasha

In November 1820, he was named mora valisi, governor of the Morea Eyalet (the Peloponnese), with seat at Tripoli and serasker of the expedition against the rebellious Ali Pasha of Yanina.

Isaias Matiaba

Isaias Matiaba was born in Ioannina, Greece on December 18, 1983 to a Greek mother and a Zairian father.

Kipoi

Kipoi, Ioannina, a village in Zagori in Ioannina regional unit, Greece

Konitsa

Mastorochoria (Asimochori, Vourmpiani, Gorgopotamos, Drosopigi, Kallithea, Kastania, Kefalochori, Kleidonia, Lagkada, Oxya, Plagia, Plikati, Pyrsogianni, Chionades)

Lake Ioannina

Ioannina to the west and the town of Perama to the north are urban settlements fringing the lake while the remaining of its periphery is composed of farmland.

Mavrovouni

Mavrovouni, Ioannina, a village in the Ioannina regional unit, part of the municipal unit Kalpaki

Metropolis of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios

It is thus that the see appears in the sources from the 9th century on as "Nafpaktos of Nicopolis" (μητρόπολις Ναυπάκτου Νικοπόλεως), counting initially eight suffragans covering all of Epirus: Vonditsa, Aetos, Acheloos, Rogoi, Ioannina, Photiki, Hadrianopolis, Buthrotum.

Monodendri

Monodendri, Ioannina, a village in Zagori, Ioannina regional unit, Greece

Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington

In September 1942 he was parachuted to mainland Greece as the Second-in-Command of the Harling Force, headed by Eddie Myers, whose task was to blow up the Gorgopotamos bridge.

Nusach

The only surviving Romaniote synagogues are in Ioannina and New York, and even these now use a predominantly Sephardic rite: there were formerly Romaniote synagogues in Istanbul and Jerusalem.

Petrovouni

Petrovouni, Ioannina, a village in the municipality of North Tzoumerka in the Ioannina regional unit

Pogon

Pogoni, a municipality in Ioannina regional unit, Greece

Qeparo

Qeparo has cultivated olives for centuries, as mentioned in early 19th century in the work of François Pouqueville, Napoleon Bonaparte's general consul at the court of Ali Pasha in Ioannina.

Religion in Greece

The Jewish community in Greece currently amounts to roughly 7,500 people, concentrated mainly in Athens, Thessaloniki, Larissa, Volos, Chalkis, Ioannina, Trikala and Corfu, while very few remain in Kavala and Rhodes.

Talaat Pasha

Later, he married Hayriye Hanım (later known as Hayriye Talaat Bafralı), a young girl from Yanya.

VAN method

For example the station IOA, located near Ioannina, detects seismic electric signals which correspond to tectonic activity in Western Peloponnese and the Ionian Sea, while it does not detect signals related to tectonic activity around Ioannina.

Voutsaras

Voutsaras, Ioannina, in the municipal unit Molossoi, Ioannina regional unit

War Museum of Kalpaki

The War Museum of Kalpaki is a museum in Kalpaki, Ioannina, Greece, dedicated to the Greco-Italian War of 1940-1941.

Yianis Vilaras

After the fall of Ioannina from the Turkish battleground, he fled to Tsepelovo in Zagori where he died three years later in 1823.


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