Gorgopotamos ( el, Γοργοπόταμος) is a small

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

located at the foot of Mount Grammos of Epirus (

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). It is surrounded by forest and the small river of Gorgopotamos runs right next to it. Gorgopotamos is part of the municipal unit of Mastorochoria of Ioannina regional unit, North-West Greece. Its location is very close to the Greek-Albanian borders. In 2011 it had a population of 29. Some

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from Gorgopotamos would work as masons in

Zagori Zagori ( el, Ζαγόρι; rup, Zagori), is a region and a municipality in the Pindus mountains in Epirus, in northwestern Greece. The seat of the municipality is the village Asprangeloi. It has an area of some and contains 46 villages known as ...

, but would usually stay briefly and rarely settled there.

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*{{cite journal , last1=Kahl , first1=Thede , title=Die Zagóri-Dörfer in Nordgriechenland: Wirtschaftliche Einheit – ethnische Vielfalt , journal=Ethnologia Balkanica , date=1999 , volume=3 , url=https://www.academia.edu/34296574/Kahl_Thede_1999_Die_Zag%C3%B3ri-D%C3%B6rfer_in_Nordgriechenland_Wirtschaftliche_Einheit_-_ethnische_Vielfalt._In_Ethnologia_Balkanica_3_103-119 Populated places in Ioannina (regional unit)