Dodoni
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Dodoni is a village and a municipality in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus
Epirus (region)
Epirus is a geographical and historical region in southeastern Europe, shared between Greece and Albania. It lies between the Pindus Mountains and the Ionian Sea, stretching from the Bay of Vlorë in the north to the Ambracian Gulf in the south...

, Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

. The seat of the municipality is the village Agia Kyriaki
Agia Kyriaki
Agia Kyriaki is a small Greek island less than one mile from Astypalaia in the Dodecanese islands.On the island is the small church of Agia Kyriaki. Every July the people of Leros will go to the small island to celebrate the name day of the saint...

. Dodoni is located near the site of the ancient oracle of Dodona
Dodona
Dodona in Epirus in northwestern Greece, was an oracle devoted to a Mother Goddess identified at other sites with Rhea or Gaia, but here called Dione, who was joined and partly supplanted in historical times by the Greek god Zeus.The shrine of Dodona was regarded as the oldest Hellenic oracle,...

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Municipality

The present municipality Dodoni was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 4 former municipalities, that became municipal units:
  • Agios Dimitrios
    Agios Dimitrios, Ioannina
    Agios Dimitrios is a former municipality in the Ioannina peripheral unit, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Dodoni, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 6,502 , its area is 231.473 km² and its population density was 28.1/km². The seat...

  • Dodoni
  • Lakka Souliou
  • Selles
    Selles, Greece
    Selles is a former municipality in the Ioannina peripheral unit, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Dodoni, of which it is a municipal unit. Is in the southwest of the Ioannina peripheral unit. The municipal unit is subdivided into fifteen...

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