Zagori

Zagori (; ) is a region, a municipality, and a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the Pindus mountains in Epirus, in northwestern Greece. The seat of the municipality is the village Asprangeloi. It has an area of some and contains 46 villages known as Zagori villages (or Zagorochoria or Zagorohoria), and is in the shape of an upturned equilateral triangle.

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Zagori is indexed among the 3,378 entries in Vinony's UNESCO World Heritage collection.

Vinony's link graph records 200 inbound references to Zagori, and connects out to Byzantine Empire, Aoös and Persian garden.

The entry is geolocated on the map, across 3 mapped points.

It sits within the topics Aromanian settlements in Greece, Municipalities of Epirus (region) and Populated places in Ioannina (regional unit).

Key facts

Greek Dimos.name: Zagori
Greek Dimos.type: municipality
Greek Dimos.image_map: 2011 Dimos Zagoriou.png
Greek Dimos.periph: Epirus
Greek Dimos.periphunit: Ioannina
Greek Dimos.pop_municipality: 3374
Greek Dimos.area_municipality: 989.8
Greek Dimos.population_as_of: 2021
Greek Dimos.licence: ΙΝ
Greek Dimos.image_skyline: Γεφυρι Κοκκορη.jpg
Greek Dimos.caption_skyline: Kokori's bridge in Vikos-Aoos National Park
Greek Dimos.seat: Asprangeloi

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Official website

Δήμος Ζαγορίου – Καλώς ήλθατε στο Δήμο Ζαγορίου

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Wikidata facts

Population: 3724
Area: 1000
Official website: www.zagori.gov.gr
Image: Kokoris.jpg

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Commons category: Zagori
native label: Ζαγόρι

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Encyclopedic overview

23 sections

Contents

Geography
History
Early history
Byzantine period
Ottoman period
Modern period
Folklore
Traditional architecture
Churches
Houses
Bridges
The Vikos Gorge
Municipality and villages
Famous Zagorians
Art
Commerce and Philanthropy
Education and Literature
Politics
See also
Notes
Citations
Sources
External links

Ioannina, the provincial capital, is at the southern point of the triangle, while the southwestern side is formed by Mount Mitsikeli (1,810m). The Aoos river running north of Mount Tymphe forms the northern boundary, while the southeastern side runs along the Varda river to Mount Mavrovouni (2,100m) near Metsovo. The municipality has an area of 989.796 km2. The population of the area is about 3,400, which gives a population density of 3.4 inhabitants per square kilometer, very sparse when compared to an average of 73.8 for Greece as a whole.

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