Bizani

Bizani (Greek: Μπιζάνι, older form: Μπιζάνιον) is a village and a former municipality in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Ioannina, of which it is a municipal unit. Its 2001 municipal population was 4,241. The seat of the municipality was in Pedini. The municipal unit Bizani is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): Bizani is connected with the GR-17 (Ioannina-Dodoni) and is located about 10 km southwest of downtown Ioannina, NNW of Arta, north of Preveza and east of Igoumenitsa. Much of the area are mountainous and forested with some grasslands, farmlands are within the valley areas and to the east. Bizani was the...