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19 unusual facts about Ioannina


Anatoli

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

Christos V. Massalas

He worked as a professor in the Department of Mathematics until 2000 when he was appointed professor of mechanics of materials at the Department of Materials Science in the University of Ioannina.

He is widely published and has held senior positions at the University of Ioannina and the University of Western Macedonia.

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.

Donald Nicol

For his contributions to the history of medieval Epirus, the city of Arta made him an honorary citizen in 1990, and he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Ioannina in 1997.

Evrymenes

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

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.

Metsovo

Its territory corresponded with that of the current municipality Metsovo, except most of the municipal unit Egnatia.

Monodendri

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

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

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

Zitsa

Ekali (Asfaka, Vatatades, Vlachatano, Gavrisioi, Ligopsa, Metamorfosi, Petsali)

Evrymenes (Delvinakopoulo, Klimatia, Kokkinochoma, Lefkothea, Paliouri, Raiko, Soulopoulo, Vasilopoulo)


Aetorrachi

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.