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Delvinaki
Delvinaki ( el, Δελβινάκι) is a former municipality in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pogoni, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 255.8 km2, the community 54.8 km2. In 2011 its population was 772 for the village and 2,540 for the municipal unit. Delvinaki is part of the traditional area of Pogoni. Delvinaki lies along the road GR-22/ E853 which links Kalpaki with the Albanian border. The border crossing Kakavia is west of town. Subdivisions The municipal unit of Delvinaki is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): * Agia Marina * Argyrochori * Charavgi *Delvinaki *Farangi (formerly Gouveri) * Kastani * Kerasovo * Kryoneri *Ktismata (Ktismata, Neochori) * Limni * Mavropoulo (Mavropoulo, Zavrocho, Chrysodouli) *Oreino Xirovaltou (Oreino, Xirovaltos) *Peristeri * Pontikates * Stratinista * Teriachi (Teriachi, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ktismata
Ktismata ( el, Κτίσματα) is a village and a community in the municipal unit of Delvinaki, Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. It is situated on a hillside on the right bank of the river Drinos, at 412 m above sea level. It is 3 km from the Greek - Albanian border at Kakavia. The community consists of the villages Ktismata (2011 population: 246) and Neochori (pop. 7). Ktismata is 7 km southwest of Delvinaki, 30 km southeast of Gjirokastër (Albania) and 47 km northwest of Ioannina. The Greek National Road 22 (Kakavia - Kalpaki) passes north of the village. Population See also *List of settlements in the Ioannina regional unit This is a list of settlements in the Ioannina regional unit, Greece. * Achladies * Aetomilitsa * Aetopetra, Konitsa * Aetopetra, Zitsa * Aetorrachi * Agia Anastasia * Agia Marina * Agia Paraskevi, Konitsa * Agia Paraskevi, Zagori * Agi ... References External linksKtismata at the GTP Travel Pages {{Authori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vissani
Vissani ( el, Βήσσανη Ιωαννίνων) is a village in the municipal unit of Delvinaki, Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. It is situated in the mountainous Pogoni area near the Albanian border, at 750 m above sea level. A small road connects Vissani with the Greek National Road 22 Kakavia - Kalpaki. Population History Vissani was founded in the 14th century, and grew during Ottoman rule. It became a part of Greece after the Balkan Wars in 1913. The village retains elements of its traditional architecture. In the center of the village is the church of Saint Nicholas from 1791, decorated with frescoes. The village houses were built by craftsmen from the villages of Pyrsogianni and Vourbiani. Vissani is the birthplace of Kitsos Harisiadis, one of the greatest traditional clarinetists of Epirus,Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey Into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music, by Christopher King who mastered and taught the tradition of playing the "miroloi". See als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pogoni
Pogoni ( el, Πωγώνι, rup, Pugon) is a municipality in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the village Kalpaki. The municipality has an area of 701.059 km2. Its population was 8,960 at the 2011 census. History Pogoni was populated by the end of the Neolithic Age. Historically, the region was inhabited by the ancient Greek tribe of the Molossians. Along with the rest of Epirus, the area was annexed by the Kingdom of Greece in 1913 after the First Balkan War. Pogoni was also home to the 268th Patriarch of Constantinople, Athenagoras I. Municipality The municipality Pogoni was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 6 former municipalities, that became municipal units: * Ano Kalamas *Ano Pogoni * Delvinaki * Kalpaki *Lavdani *Pogoniani Province The province of Pogoni ( el, Επαρχία Πωγωνίου) was one of the provinces A province is almost always an administrative division within a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ioannina (regional Unit)
Ioannina ( el, Περιφερειακή ενότητα Ιωαννίνων) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Epirus. Its capital is the city of Ioannina. It is the largest regional unit in Epirus, and one of the largest regional units of Greece, with a population of 167,901 people, according to the 2011 census.GOV. results of permanent population 2011, p. 10561 (p. 87 of pdf), and in Excel formatTable of permanent population 2011 from the sitHellenic Statistical Authority 2017-11-24. Retrieved 2018-01-09. Geography Ioannina borders in the north, and the regional units of ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalpaki
Kalpaki ( el, Καλπάκι) is a former municipality in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pogoni, of which it is a municipal unit. It is situated about northwest of Ioannina, and southwest of Konitsa. The municipal unit has an area of 116.756 km2, the community 13.189 km2. Population 1,719 (2011). The Greek National Road 20 connects Kalpaki with Ioannina and Konitsa. The GR-22 connects Kalpaki with Kakavia, the border crossing into southern Albania. Subdivisions The municipal unit Kalpaki is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): *Kalpaki (Kalpaki, Lioumpa) *Ano Ravenia *Chrysorrachi *Doliana (Doliana, Agios Georgios Dolianon) *Geroplatanos *Kato Ravenia *Mavrovouni *Negrades Population History Kalpaki joined Greece after the Balkan Wars of 1913. The Battle of Elaia–Kalamas took place in the area in November 1940, during the Italian invasion o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kakavia (border Crossing)
The Kakavia or Kakavijë border crossing ( sq, Pika kufitare e Kakavijës) ( el, Κακαβιά) is a major road border crossing between southern Albania and northwestern Greece. On the Albanian side lies the village of Kakavijë, located in the Gjirokastër County, Dropull region. On the Greek side lies the village of Ktismata, in the Delvinaki municipality, Ioannina regional unit. The main road from Sarandë and Gjirokastër to Ioannina passes through this border crossing. The Greek National Road 22 (GR-22, European route E853) connects Kakavia with the GR-20 at Kalpaki. On August 27, 1923, the Italian general Enrico Tellini, three of his assistants, and their interpreter fell into an ambush and were assassinated by unknown assailants at Kakavia, leading to the Corfu incident The Corfu Incident was a 1923 diplomatic and military crisis between Greece and Italy. It was triggered when an Italian general heading a commission to resolve a border dispute between Albania and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evliya Çelebi
Derviş Mehmed Zillî (25 March 1611 – 1682), known as Evliya Çelebi ( ota, اوليا چلبى), was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman explorer who travelled through the territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring lands over a period of forty years, recording his commentary in a Travel literature, travelogue called the ''Seyahatname, Seyâhatnâme'' ("Book of Travel"). The name Çelebi (title), Çelebi is an honorific title meaning "gentleman" or "man of God" (see Turkish names#Surnames, pre-1934 Turkish naming conventions). Life Evliya Çelebi was born in Istanbul, Constantinople in 1611 to a wealthy family from Kütahya. Both his parents were attached to the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman court, his father, Derviş Mehmed Zilli, as a jeweller, and his mother as an Abkhazians, Abkhazian relation of the list of Ottoman Grand Viziers, grand vizier Melek Ahmed Pasha. In his book, Evliya Çelebi traces his paternal genealogy back to Ahmad Yasawi, an early Sufi mystic. Evliya Çelebi re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hass (Ottoman)
In the Ottoman administrative-military classification of land, a ''hâss'' was an estate with revenue. It was further divided into classes. *''hass-ı hümayun'', Imperial demesne (domain) *''hass-ı mir-liva'', taxes for district commander *''hass-ı mirmiran'', prebend of second-level ''pasha Pasha, Pacha or Paşa ( ota, پاشا; tr, paşa; sq, Pashë; ar, باشا), in older works sometimes anglicized as bashaw, was a higher rank in the Ottoman political and military system, typically granted to governors, generals, dignita ...'' governing a province References *{{cite book, author=Halil İnalcık, title=An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1j-AtkBmn78C&pg=PA141, year=1997, publisher=Cambridge University Press, isbn=978-0-521-57456-3, pages=141– Taxation in the Ottoman Empire Land taxation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voivode
Voivode (, also spelled ''voievod'', ''voevod'', ''voivoda'', ''vojvoda'' or ''wojewoda'') is a title denoting a military leader or warlord in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe since the Early Middle Ages. It primarily referred to the medieval rulers of the Romanian-inhabited states and of governors and military commanders of Hungarian, Balkan or some Slavic-speaking populations. In the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ''voivode'' was interchangeably used with '' palatine''. In the Tsardom of Russia, a voivode was a military governor. Among the Danube principalities, ''voivode'' was considered a princely title. Etymology The term ''voivode'' comes from two roots. is related to warring, while means 'leading' in Old Slavic, together meaning 'war leader' or 'warlord'. The Latin translation is for the principal commander of a military force, serving as a deputy for the monarch. In early Slavic, ''vojevoda'' meant the , the military leader in battle. The term has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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