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Bizani (Greek: Μπιζάνι) is a village and a former municipality in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Ioannina, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 91.372 km2, the community 11.660 km2. In 2021 its population was 4,387. The seat of the municipality was in Pedini. The municipal unit is situated in the plains and low hills south and southwest of Ioannina. The Greek National Road 5 (Ioannina - Arta), the Greek National Road 17 (Ioannina - Dodoni) and the A2 Egnatia Odos motorway (Igoumenitsa - Ioannina - Thessaloniki) pass through the municipal unit.
Subdivisions
The municipalunit Bizani is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets):
Ampeleia (Ampeleia, Filothei)
Bizani (Neo Bizani, Koloniati)
Asvestochori
Kontsika (Kontsika, Synoikismos Kontsikas)
Kosmira
Manoliasa
Pedini (Pedini, Fteri, Chioniasa)
Population
History
The village and former municipality, gets its name from the nearby fort built by the Ottoman Empire which in turn may have been inspired by the nearby mountain range. Fort Bezhani, as referenced by some groups like the US Congress Committee on Military Affairs, is known in Greek as "Bizani" (also Fort Bijan) was the location of the Battle of Bizani that took place in February 1913 as part of the Balkan Wars as the last stronghold for Ioannina and the remainder of Epirus before ending almost five centuries of Ottoman Turkish rule.
See also
List of settlements in the Ioannina regional unit
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Ozaki Kōyō
- Ashurajou no Hitomi
- Nanako Matsushima
- Konstantinos I dari Yunani
- Daftar gunung dan pegunungan di Jepang menurut ketinggian
- Bizani
- Battle of Bizani
- World War I
- Michalis Stivaros
- First Balkan War order of battle: Hellenic Army
- Pedini, Greece
- Balkan Wars
- Constantine I of Greece
- List of settlements in the Ioannina regional unit
- First Balkan War
