Ioannina
Capital City of Epirus
Capital City of Epirus
Ioannina often called Jannena within Greece, is the largest city of Epirus. Founded by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian in the 6th century AD, Ioannina flurished the Fourth Crusade, when mane wealthy Byzantine families field there in the early 13th century following the sack of Constantinople.It was the capital of the Despotate of Epirus from 1358 to 1416, before surrendering to the Ottomans in 1430. Between 1430 and 1868 the city was the administrative center of the Pashalik of Yanina. In the period between the 16th and 19th centuries, the city was a major center of the modern Greek Enlightenment. Ioannina joined Greece in 1913 following the Balkan Wars.
