Ioannina (grc)

Ioannina

Ioannina ranks 2,660th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Santa Cruz, California, Vaasa, and Rybinsk. Memorable people born in Ioannina include Wehib Pasha, Thomas Preljubović, and Nikos Spyropoulos. Memorable people who died in Ioannina include Ali Pasha of Ioannina, Maria Angelina Doukaina Palaiologina, and Thomas Preljubović. Ioannina has been the birth place of many soccer players, and military personnels and the death place of many politicians. Ioannina is located in Greece.

Ioannina, often called Yannena within Greece, is the capital and largest city of the Ioannina regional unit and of Epirus, an administrative region in northwestern Greece. According to the 2021 census, the city population was 64,896 while the municipality had 113,978 inhabitants. It lies at an elevation of approximately 500 metres above sea level, on the western shore of Lake Pamvotis (Παμβώτις). Ioannina is located 410 km (255 mi) northwest of Athens, 260 kilometres southwest of Thessaloniki and 80 km east of the port of Igoumenitsa on the Ionian Sea. Read more on Wikipedia