Zitsa is a village and a municipality in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus

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, Greece

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. The seat of the municipality is the village Eleousa.

Municipality

The present municipality Zitsa was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 5 former municipalities, that became municipal units (constituent communities in brackets):

• Ekali
  Ekali, Ioannina
  Ekali is a former municipality in the Ioannina peripheral unit, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Zitsa, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 1,977 . The seat of the municipality was in Metamorfosi....
  
   (Asfaka, Vatatades, Vlachatano, Gavrisioi, Ligopsa, Metamorfosi, Petsali)
• Evrymenes
  Evrymenes, Ioannina
  Evrymenes was a short-lived municipality in the Ioannina Prefecture, Greece. Following the massive mergers that took place in accordance to Kallikratis Plan, since 2011 it holds the status of "municipal entity" within the Municipality of Zitsa. Its 2001 population was 1,525...
  
   (Delvinakopoulo, Klimatia, Kokkinochoma, Lefkothea, Paliouri, Raiko, Soulopoulo, Vasilopoulo)
• Molossoi
  Molossoi
  Molossoi is a former municipality in the Ioannina peripheral unit, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Zitsa, of which it is a municipal unit. Its 2001 population was 3,139...
  
   (Aetopetra, Chinka
  Chinka
  Chinka is a village in the Ioannina Prefecture in Greece and the municipal unit of Molossoi, it is in the area of Douskara. Its 2001 population was 147 for the village of which only 80 people live there all year long...
  
  , Despotiko, Dovla, Ekklisochori, Foteino, Giourganista, Granitsa
  Granitsa, Ioannina
  Granitsa is a village in the Ioannina peripheral unit in Greece and the municipal unit of Molossoi, it is in the area of Douskara. Its 2001 population was 187 for the village of which only 80 people lives all season long...
  
  , Granitsopoula, Grimpovo, Kalochori, Kourenta, Polydoro
  Polydoro
  Polydoro is a village in the municipal unit of Molossoi, Ioannina peripheral unit in Greece. It is in the area of Douskara. Its 2001 population was 147...
  
  , Radovizi, Rizo, Vereniki, Voutsaras
  Voutsaras, Ioannina
  Voutsaras is a village in the Ioannina peripheral unit in Greece and the municipal unit of Molossoi in the area of Douskara. Its 2001 population was 150...
  
  , Vrosina, Vrysoula, Zalongo)
• Pasaronas
  Pasaronas
  Pasaronas is a former municipality in the Ioannina peripheral unit, Greece. Population 8,452 . The seat of the municipality was the village Eleousa. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Zitsa, of which it is a municipal unit....
  
   (Agios Ioannis, Anargyroi, Ano Lapsista, Eleousa, Grammeno, Kato Lapsista, Lofiskos, Lyngos, Mega Gardiki, Neochori, Peratis, Petralona, Polylofo, Rodotopi, Vageniti, Vounoplagia, Zoodochos)
• Zitsa (Dafnofyto, Karitsa, Lithino, Protopappas, Zitsa)

Notable people

• Jeremias I
  Patriarch Jeremias I of Constantinople
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  (16th century), Patriarch of Constantinople
• Dimitrios Zitsaios, benefactor
• Dimitrios Sarros (1870–1938), writer
• Chrisanthi Zitsaia (1903–1995), writer