Voio ( el, Βόιο) is a municipality in the

Kozani Kozani ( el, Κοζάνη, ) is a city in northern Greece, capital of Kozani (regional unit), Kozani regional unit and of Western Macedonia. It is located in the western part of Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia, in the northern part of the Aliakmona ...

regional unit,

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. The seat of the municipality is the town

Siatista Siatista ( el, Σιάτιστα) is a town and a former municipality in Kozani regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Voio, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. It ...

. It was named after the

Voio Voio ( el, Βόιο, ''Vóio''; grc, Βόιον - ''Boeon'') is a mountain range in the southwestern Kastoria and western Kozani regional units in Greece. The mountain is part of the Pindus mountains. Its highest elevation is 1,805 m. It is a d ...

mountains. The municipality has an area of 1007.629 km². Its population at the 2011 census was 18,386.

Municipality

The municipality Voio was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 5 former municipalities, that became municipal units: * Askio * Neapoli * Pentalofos *

Tsotyli Tsotyli ( el, Τσοτύλι, also Τσοτίλι - ''Tsotili'') is a village and a former municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as grant ...

Province

The province of Voio ( el, Επαρχία Βοΐου) was one of the

provinces A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outsi ...

of the Kozani Prefecture. Its territory corresponded with that of the current municipality Voio. It was abolished in 2006.

References

Municipalities of Western Macedonia Provinces of Greece Populated places in Kozani (regional unit) {{WMacedonia-geo-stub