Zitsa

Zitsa () is a village and a municipality in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the village Eleousa. The municipality has an area of 565.566 km2, the municipal unit 65.868 km2, the community 29.169 km2.

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Place details

Locality: Σακελλαρικό
Region: Περιφέρεια Ηπείρου
Country: Ελλάς
Population: 613
Timezone: Europe/Athens

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Key facts

Greek Dimos.name: Zitsa
Greek Dimos.name_local: Ζίτσα
Greek Dimos.type: municipality
Greek Dimos.image_map: 2011 Dimos Zitsas.png
Greek Dimos.periph: Epirus
Greek Dimos.periphunit: Ioannina
Greek Dimos.pop_municipality: 13588
Greek Dimos.area_municipality: 565.6
Greek Dimos.pop_municunit: 953
Greek Dimos.area_municunit: 65.87
Greek Dimos.pop_community: 492
Greek Dimos.area_community: 29.17
Greek Dimos.population_as_of: 2021
Greek Dimos.licence: ΙΝ
Greek Dimos.image_skyline: Monument_to_Lord_Byron_in_Zitsa.jpg
Greek Dimos.caption_skyline: Monument to Lord Byron in Zitsa

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Wikidata facts

Population: 613
Elevation: 680
Dialing code: 2658

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Commons category: Zitsa
postal code: 440 03
native label: Ζίτσα Ιωαννίνων

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History
Municipality
Notable people
Landmarks
References

==History== The first reference to Zitsa is in the Chronicle of Ioannina in 1382. It developed into a prosperous village in the Ottoman era and became a centre of wine production, something for which it is still renowned. During this period, it appeared in the travelogues of various Western Europeans, including William Martin Leake (1809), Lord Byron (1809) and Henry Holland (1813). Byron, who spent two nights in Zitsa's monastery, was so enamoured with the village that he later included a stanza about it in his Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.