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Country
  
Greece

Vehicle registration
  
ΙΝ

Local time
  
Friday 1:24 AM

Administrative region
  
Epirus

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Elevation
  
575 m

Municipality
  
Ioannina

Regional unit
  
Ioannina

Bizani

Weather
  
3°C, Wind NE at 2 km/h, 92% Humidity

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 2011 its population was 5,124. 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 Egnatia Odos motorway (Igoumenitsa - Ioannina - Thessaloniki) pass through the municipal unit.

Contents

Map of Bizani 455 00, Greece

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)
  • History

    Bizani 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.

    References

    Bizani Wikipedia