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Also known as Vostina

Pogoniani (, pronounced , before 1928: Βοστίνα, Vostina; ) is a village and a former community in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pogoni, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 56.693 km2, the community 18.830 km2. The municipal unit consists of 4 villages: Pogoniani, Dolo, Drymades, Stavroskiadi.

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Place details

Locality
Πωγωνιανή
Region
Περιφέρεια Ηπείρου
Country
Ελλάς
Population
425

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Key facts

Greek Dimos.name
Pogoniani
Greek Dimos.name_local
Πωγωνιανή
Greek Dimos.type
municipal unit
Greek Dimos.image_map
DE Pogonianis.svg
Greek Dimos.map_caption
Location within the regional unit
Greek Dimos.periph
Epirus
Greek Dimos.periphunit
Ioannina
Greek Dimos.municipality
Pogoni
Greek Dimos.pop_municunit
549
Greek Dimos.pop_community
441
Greek Dimos.population_as_of
2021
Greek Dimos.area_municunit
56.693
Greek Dimos.area_community
18.830
Greek Dimos.licence
ΙΝ

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
village
Country
Greece
Population
425
Elevation
737
Image
The village of Voshtina (Pogoniani) and Buzova Mountain in background.jpg
Dialing code
2657
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native label
Πωγωνιανή
Commons category
Pogoniani
postal code
44005
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Encyclopedic overview

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Pogoniani (, pronounced , before 1928: Βοστίνα, Vostina; ) is a village and a former community in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pogoni, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 56.693 km2, the community 18.830 km2. The municipal unit consists of 4 villages: Pogoniani, Dolo, Drymades, Stavroskiadi.

==History== In antiquity the area of Pogoniani was inhabited by Molossians, one of the three main Ancient Greek tribes of the northwestern Greek group.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pogoniani” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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