See also:IANNINA (i.e. " the See also:city of St See also:John "; Gr. Ioannina; Turk Yanid; also written Janina, Jannina, and, according to its Albanian See also:pronunciation, Yanina)
, the See also:capital of the vilayet of See also:Iannina, See also:Albania, See also:European See also:Turkey
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Pop
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(1905) about 22,000
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The largest ethnical See also:groups in the See also:population are the Albanian and See also:Greek; the purest See also:form of colloquial Greek is spoken here among the wealthy and highly educated See also:merchant families
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The position of Iannina is strikingly picturesque
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At the See also:foot of the See also:grey See also:limestone See also:mass of See also:Mount Mitzekeli (1500 ft.), which forms See also:part of the See also:fine range of hills See also:running See also:north from the Gulf of See also:Arta, there lies a valley (the Hellopia of antiquity) partly occupied by a See also:lake; and the See also:city is built on the slopes of a slight See also:eminence, stretching down to the western See also:shore
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It has greatly declined from the See also:state of barbaric prosperity which it enjoyed from 1788 to 1822, when it was the seat of See also:Ali See also:Pasha (q.v.), and was estimated to have from 30,000 to 50,000 inhabitants
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The fortress—Demir Kule or See also:Iron See also:Castle, which, like the See also:principal seraglio, was built on a promontory jutting into the lake—is now in ruins
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Bllt,tbe city is the seat of a Greek See also:archbishop, and still possesses many mosques and churches, besides synagogues, a Greek See also:college (gymnasium), a library and a See also:hospital
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Sayades (opposite See also:Corfu) and Arta are the places through which it receives its imports
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The See also:rich See also:gold and See also:silver See also:embroidery for which the city has See also:long been famous is still one of the notable articles in its See also:bazaar; but the commercial importance of Iannina has notably declined since the cession of Arta and See also:Thessaly to See also:Greece in 1881
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Iannina had previously been one of the See also:chief centres of the Thessalian See also:grain See also:trade; it now exports little except See also:cheese, hides, See also:bitumen and sheepskins to the See also:annual value of about £120,000; the imports, which See also:supply only the See also:local demand for provisions, textile goods, hardware, &c., are See also:worth about See also:double that sum
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The lake of Iannina (perhaps to be identified with the Pambotus or Pambotis of antiquity) is 6 m. long, and has an See also:area of 24 sq. m., with an extreme See also:depth of less than 35 ft
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In See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of See also:flood it is See also:united with the smaller lake of Labchistas to the north
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There are no affluents of any considerable See also:size, and the only outlets are underground passages or katavothra extending for many See also:miles through the calcareous rocks
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The theory supported by W
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See also:Leake (See also:Northern Greece, See also:London, 1835) that the citadel of Iannina is to be identified with See also:Dodona, is now generally abandoned in favour of the claims of a more See also:southern site
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As See also:Anna Comnena, in describing the See also:capture of the See also:town (ra 'Ioavvwa) by Bohemond in 1082, speaks of the walls as being dilapidated, it may be supposed that the See also:place existed before the 11th See also:century
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It is mentioned from time to time in the See also:Byzantine See also:annals, and on the See also:establishment of thelordship of See also:Epirus by See also:Michael See also:Angelus See also:Comnenus See also:Ducas, it became his capital
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In the See also:middle ages it was successively attacked by Serbs, Macedonians and Albanians; but it was in See also:possession of the successors of Michael when the forces of the See also:Sultan See also:Murad appeared before it in 1430 (cf
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See also:Hahn, See also:Alban
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Studien, See also:Jena [18541, pp
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319-322)
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Since 1432 it has continued under See also:Turkish See also:rule
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Descriptions of Iannina will be found in See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland's Travels (1815) ; See also:Hughes, Travels in Greece, &c
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(183o) ; H
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F
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Tozer, Researches in the See also:Highlands of Turkey (London, 1869)
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See also ALBANIA and the authorities there cited
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