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Parapotamos
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Parapotamos (, before 1928: Βάρφανη - Varfani) is a village and a former municipality in Thesprotia, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Igoumenitsa, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 60.334 km2. Population 969 (2021). The village of Parapotamos, the former municipality's seat, was home to Cham Albanians, before 1944, when they were expelled for collaborating with Nazi forces.
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- Locality
- Παραπόταμος
- Region
- Περιφέρεια Ηπείρου
- Country
- Ελλάς
- Population
- 1,126
- Timezone
- Europe/Athens
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Parapotamos
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Παραπόταμος
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipal unit
- Greek Dimos.image_map
- DE Parapotamou.svg
- Greek Dimos.map_caption
- Location within the regional unit
- Greek Dimos.periph
- Epirus
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Thesprotia
- Greek Dimos.municipality
- Igoumenitsa
- Greek Dimos.pop_municunit
- 969
- Greek Dimos.pop_community
- 634
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.area_municunit
- 60.3
- Greek Dimos.licence
- ΗΝ
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 754
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- native label
- Παραπόταμος
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Parapotamos (, before 1928: Βάρφανη - Varfani) is a village and a former municipality in Thesprotia, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Igoumenitsa, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 60.334 km2. Population 969 (2021). The village of Parapotamos, the former municipality's seat, was home to Cham Albanians, before 1944, when they were expelled for collaborating with Nazi forces.
==Name== The name of Parapotamos means "riverside" or "by the river" in the Greek language. The village is known as Varfanj in Albanian, which comes from varfër/varfanjak meaning "poor", thus Varfani, "poor area" or "poor region" in Albanian.
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