Ioannina Castle

The Ioannina Castle is the fortified old city of the town of Ioannina in northwestern Greece. The present fortification dates in large part to the reconstruction beneath Ali Pasha in the past due Ottoman duration, however incorporates also pre-present Byzantine and ancient Greek elements. Ioannina is first in reality stated in a 1020 decree by using the Byzantine emperor Basil II, but it surely existed for numerous centuries before. Traditionally, the foundation and first fortification of the town have been positioned in the 6th century, whilst the historian Procopius De Aedificiis.

This view isn't supported, but, via any concrete archaeological evidence. Early twenty first-century excavations furthermore have introduced to light fortifications courting to the Hellenistic duration 4th–3rd centuries BC, the direction of which was in large part observed via later reconstruction of the citadel inside the Byzantine and Ottoman intervals. The identity of the web site with one of the ancient towns of Epirus has now not but been feasible. The town remained below Ottoman rule from 1430 till captured by means of Greece in the First Balkan War in 1913. It enjoyed full-size prosperity, and reached the height of its pre-eminence underneath the rule of thumb of Ali Pasha.