Ioannina

Ioannina is the capital and largest city of the Ioannina nearby unit and of Epirus, an administrative place in north-western Greece. Its population is 112,486, consistent with 2011 census. It lies at an elevation of approximately 500 metres 1,640 toes above sea stage, at the western shore of lake. Ioannina is placed 410 km northwest of Athens, 260 kilometres southwest of Thessaloniki and 80 km east of the port of Igoumenitsa inside the Ionian Sea.

The first symptoms of human presence in Ioannina basin are dated lower back to the Paleolithic length 20,000 years in the past as testified by using findings in the cavern of Kastritsa. During classical antiquity the basin changed into inhabited by way of the Molossians and four in their settlements were identified there. Despite the vast destruction suffered in Molossia at some point of the Roman conquest of 167 BC, agreement continued within the basin albeit now not in an urban sample. Some of the most vital museums of the city are placed within the partitions of the fortress.

The Municipal Ethnographic Museum is hosted in Aslan Pasha Mosque inside the north-east fort. It is divided in three departments, every one representing one of the predominant communities that inhabited the metropolis: Greek, Ottoman Muslim, and Jewish. The Byzantine Museum is placed inside the south-japanese castle of the citadel. The museum opened in 1995 in order to maintain and gift artefacts of the wider location of Epirus protecting the length from the 4th to the 19th century.