Ano Pogoni ( el, Άνω Πωγώνι) is a former municipality in the Ioannina regional unit,

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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality

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 ...

, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 137.084 km². Population 1,490 (2011). The seat of the municipality was in Kefalovryso.

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Ano Pogoni is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): *

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* Kakolakkos * Kato Meropi * Kefalovryso *

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(formerly Roumpates) *

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* Roupsia * Vasiliko

Population

Names

The name Ano Pogoni means "Upper Pogoni". Some Albanian toponyms exist for names of villages in the Pogoni area such as Roumpates meaning robe or garment. "όπως και από αλβανικές ονομασίες χωριών: Ρομπάτες (= ρόμπα, ένδυμα), Δελβινακίων (= αμπελότοπος), Γούβερη (Γούβα - Κοίλωμα) κ.λ.π."

History

During the

Balkan Wars The Balkan Wars refers to a series of two conflicts that took place in the Balkan States in 1912 and 1913. In the First Balkan War, the four Balkan States of Greece, Serbia, Montenegro and Bulgaria declared war upon the Ottoman Empire and defe ...

(autumn 1912) a number of villages in the area were affected by raids of Muslim bands. At the end of the Balkan Wars most of the Pogoni area became part Greece, while six villages ( Lower Pogoni) were ceded to the newly established

Principality of Albania The Principality of Albania ( al, Principata e Shqipërisë or ) refers to the short-lived monarchy in Albania, headed by Wilhelm, Prince of Albania, that lasted from the Treaty of London of 1913 which ended the First Balkan War, through ...

References

Populated places in Ioannina (regional unit) {{Epirus-geo-stub