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The village Makrino is included in the geographical area of the Municipality of Zagori. It is located in the northwestern part of the Municipality near some of the water springs of Varda-Arachthos, built on the slopes of a hill full of flora. The Community area is about 20.1 thousand acres. The lower area has an [...]

The settlement of Vikos pertains administratively to the local community of Aristi. It is named after the homonymous gorge. It comes from the Albanian vig-u, which means bridge. It is located at an altitude of 770m. and is 5km away from Aristi. It is built in the extreme end of the peak of Kastraki [...]

The place name comes from the female of the Slavic adjective dobr-bra-bro, which means "the good". The village took its present name "Asprangeli", in 1926 from the Monastery of Asprangeli (White Angels), that lies in the area. The date of the village's settlement is unknown. It is mentioned for the first time in [...]

The oldest name of the village was Artsista. This place name comes from a plant species, the Albanian arrc-i the ending -ishte or the -ishta article, which means a place where a species of shrub or tree or grass develops. The village is built on the slopes of the Koudounata and Grambala Mountains [...]

The place name "Sudena" comes from the Slavian Studend, which means cold, or from Studena-stdena-Zdena, a parody of the word Souda. Mr Lambridis, interpreting the place name Stoudena as a "cold place," reports that the Upper and Lower Sudena villages, until 1634, were called Studena. The village, built at 960 meters, is [...]

Anthrakitis is one of the 43 communities of the Municipality of Zagori, 50 km from Ioannina, it is built on the northeastern side of Mount Mitsikeli, at an altitude of 730. The urban form of the village is circular and monocentric, as the majority of the villages of Zagori. In the center of [...]

The village of Saint Minas was founded around 1750 AD, its original name was Erevnikio and it is built at an altitude of 640 meters. Tradition says this great settlement was dissolved after a bloody clash between the families of the two notables of the village, Stamatis and Geranis. The present name of [...]

Kipi is a village built on a hill, at a distance of 39 km from Ioannina. The main distinguishing characteristic of the village is its gardens, which are surrounded by a river embellished by stone bridges. The village of Kipi is located in Zagori (at an altitude of 750m). In the village [...]

Lаista is one of the most beautiful villages of Zagori, at an altitude of 1020 m and at a distance of 80 km from Ioannina. The settlement dates back to 1580 and during the 18th and 19th centuries it experienced a period of great prosperity. It was the only town in Zagori (Lambridis [...]

No one knows when the settlement was built. It is first mentioned in golden-sealed Presidential Decree of Andronikos the Second on 1295 and its old Vlach name was LJIASINTSA. However, its hellenic name LESINITSA was widely used. It was named as Vrisochori in 1927. The picturesque Vrysochori, with the Alpine landscape, pertains to [...]