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Thesprotia Thesprotia (; el, Θεσπρωτία, ) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the Epirus region. Its capital and largest town is Igoumenitsa. Thesprotia is named after the Thesprotians, an ancient Greek tribe that inhabited the ...

n") is a village and a former municipality in the Preveza regional unit,

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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Ziros, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 131.823 km². Population 4,075 (2011). The village was known as Lelova (Λέλοβα) until April 1, 1927 when it adopted its current name. An independent community since 1919, Thesprotiko became a municipality in 1948.EETAA local government changes
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Subdivisions

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

Assos Assos (; grc-gre, Ἄσσος, la, Assus) is a beautiful small and historically important town on the Aegean coast in the Ayvacık district of Çanakkale province, Turkey. It is on the southern side of Biga Peninsula (better known by its anc ...

(Assos, Kerasovo) * Galatas (Galatas, Agios Savvas, Zervo) *Meliana * Nikolitsi (Nikolitsi, Elaia, Platania) * Pappadates (Pappadates, Agioi Apostoloi, Galini) * Polystafylo (Polystafylo, Agia Triada) * Rizovouni (Rizovouni, Ziropoli) *Thesprotiko

Population

Geography

It is the capital of the area of

Lakka Lakka or is a liqueur produced in Finland which derives its flavor from the cloudberry fruit. The word means cloudberry in Finnish. The beverage is produced by soaking the berries in alcohol anywhere between two and six months until sweetene ...

in the Preveza Prefecture (Lakka Lelovou), and has a valley which includes several villages. The village is located between the Thesprotika (Baldenesi, Μπαλντενέσι) with the elevation of 1,250 m and Tsouka Podogora-Zarkorachi to the east with the elevation of 1,270 m. It had a lake with the name of Mavri which dried up in 1960.

References

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