Karvounari
Sign in to saveKarvounari () is a village and a community in the municipal unit of Paramythia in Thesprotia, Greece. Its population in 2021 was 437. It is situated at about 140 m elevation. It is 5 km northeast of Margariti, 8 km southwest of Paramythia and 22 km southeast of Igoumenitsa.
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- Locality
- Καρβουνάρι
- Region
- Περιφέρεια Ηπείρου
- Country
- Ελλάς
- Population
- 454
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Karvounari () is a village and a community in the municipal unit of Paramythia in Thesprotia, Greece. Its population in 2021 was 437. It is situated at about 140 m elevation. It is 5 km northeast of Margariti, 8 km southwest of Paramythia and 22 km southeast of Igoumenitsa.
==History== Like all other Muslim Cham communities, the population was affected by the annexation of the region by Greece. In 1913, the village had a total population of 1,146 which was more than halved by 1920 as 496 remained. Many had migrated to Albania or Turkey.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Karvounari” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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