Ioannina
Ioannina (in Greek: Ιωάννινα, often spelled Γιάννενα; Giannena, Yiannena or Γιάννινα, Giannina, Yiannina ; in Albanian, Janinë or Janina ; in Bulgarian, Янина, Janina ) is the most important city of Épire, in the North-West of the Greece.
Geography
Its population is roughly of 100.000 inhabitants (7th town of Greece). It is located at 435 km in the North-West of Athens, at 350 km in the south-west of Thessalonique and at 95 km of the port of Igoumenitsa. It is at an altitude of 600 m, on western bank of the lake Pamvotis. It is the capital of the prefecture of Ioannina and the Épire.
History
Two origins are advanced for the name of the city. Ioannina would come from the name of the manufacturer of the fortress, certain Ioannis. It could draw its name from the monastery dedicated to Saint Jean Baptiste which was located in the fortress before its destruction in 1611. The two assumptions are of course not exclusive one of the other.
The city would have been founded (or strengthened only according to Procope de Césarée) by the Byzantine Emperor Justinien with the Life century. In 879, one knows that it was the seat of one évêché: Zacharias, Bishop of Ioanniki sign the register of the Synod with Constantinople.
For a long time, the city was limited to the fortress.
It is also associated with Ali Pasha, the governor of Albania, Macedonia and Thrace, named by the Ottoman Empire, and which was killed in 1822 by agents of the Sultan in Moni Panteleimonos on the island located at the center of the lake Pamvotis.
Ioannina currently
Ioannina is a coed city which accommodates some 13000 students of the Université of Ioannina.One can see three mosques now reallocated in the city, thing rare in Greece. It is also it should be noted that an Albanian community saw there.
See too
- Guide of Ioannina
- Site of the university of Ioannina
- To discover Ioannina
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