Pogoni ( Greek : Πωγώνι , Aromanian : Pugon ) is a municipality in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus , Greece . The seat of the municipality is the village Kalpaki . The municipality has an area of 701.059 km. Its population was 6,848 at the 2021 census.
2-659: Pogoni was populated by the end of the Neolithic Age . Historically, the region was inhabited by the ancient Greek tribe of the Molossians . Along with the rest of Epirus , the area was annexed by the Kingdom of Greece in 1913 after the First Balkan War . Pogoni was also home to the 268th Patriarch of Constantinople , Athenagoras I . The municipality Pogoni was formed at the 2011 local government reform by
4-495: The merger of the following 6 former municipalities, that became municipal units: The province of Pogoni ( Greek : Επαρχία Πωγωνίου ) was one of the provinces of the Ioannina Prefecture. Its territory corresponded with that of the current municipality Pogoni, except the municipal units Ano Kalamas and Kalpaki . Its seat was the village Delvinaki . It was abolished in 2006. This Epirus location article
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