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IOANNINA (Chief Town of the Epirus):
Chief Town of the homonym province, situated in the Epirus, on the nord-west coast of the lake. Agricolture market place with textile industries. Ioannina was conquired by Normans in 1081, became in the 1204 capital of Despotato of Epirus. In 1434 it fell under the Turks and it had its period of maximum splendor like understood them of Ali Tepedenlenli(1788-1822). It was conquirred by the Greek troopers after hard battles in the course ofthe I balcans war(13 February 1913). Among the remarkable monuments there are the convents in the island of the lake, with important frescos in the school cretesebizantina.Of the Turkish period they are conserved you vary buildings between which the fortress of Ali Pasha and the mosque of Arslan Pasha.. The province of Giannina (499 km2) extends in the northern field dell' Epiro to the border with l' Albania.The territory, elevated to East in the mounts Smolikas (2637 m), Timfe (2497 m), Maurovouni (2158m) and Lakmos (2295 m), and covered from the rivers Sarantaporos and Aoos, affluent of the Voiussa, and Arachthos, and and occupied to the center from the lacustrine river basin of Giannina (ancient, Pembotis: surface 19 km2). L' agriculture (maize, screw), l' breeding, the froestale exploitation and l' handicraft of the carpets and filigrees is the main economic resources of the inhabitants. |
