Zitsa
Sign in to saveZitsa () is a village and a municipality in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the village Eleousa. The municipality has an area of 565.566 km2, the municipal unit 65.868 km2, the community 29.169 km2.
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Place details
- Locality
- Σακελλαρικό
- Region
- Περιφέρεια Ηπείρου
- Country
- Ελλάς
- Population
- 613
- Timezone
- Europe/Athens
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Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Zitsa
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Ζίτσα
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipality
- Greek Dimos.image_map
- 2011 Dimos Zitsas.png
- Greek Dimos.periph
- Epirus
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Ioannina
- Greek Dimos.pop_municipality
- 13588
- Greek Dimos.area_municipality
- 565.6
- Greek Dimos.pop_municunit
- 953
- Greek Dimos.area_municunit
- 65.87
- Greek Dimos.pop_community
- 492
- Greek Dimos.area_community
- 29.17
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Greece
- Population
- +613
- Elevation
- +680
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- Category:Zitsa
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Article
5 sectionsContents
- History
- Municipality
- Notable people
- Landmarks
- References
Zitsa () is a village and a municipality in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the village Eleousa. The municipality has an area of 565.566 km2, the municipal unit 65.868 km2, the community 29.169 km2.
==History== The first reference to Zitsa is in the Chronicle of Ioannina in 1382. It developed into a prosperous village in the Ottoman era and became a centre of wine production, something for which it is still renowned. During this period, it appeared in the travelogues of various Western Europeans, including William Martin Leake (1809), Lord Byron (1809) and Henry Holland (1813). Byron, who spent two nights in Zitsa's monastery, was so enamoured with the village that he later included a stanza about it in his Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.