Ioannina

[ yaw-ah-nee-nah, yah-nee-nah ]

noun

1. a city in NW Greece.

Ioánnina

/ jɔˈanina /

noun

1. a city in NW Greece: belonged to the Serbs (1349–1430) and then the Turks (until 1913); seat of Ali Pasha, the "Lion of Janina", from 1788 to 1822. Pop: 78 000 (2005 est) Serbian nameJanina

Example Sentences

Karolos Papoulias was born on June 4, 1929, in a village near the city of Ioannina, in northwestern Greece, the son of an army officer who retired as a Major-General.

From Seattle Times

Ioannina in northwest Greece, within the larger Epirus region, is the home of Domaine Glinavos.

From New York Times

Ioannina is in the northwest of Greece, in the Epirus region, west of Thessaly and abutting Albania.

From New York Times

The Greek border village of Haravgi Ioannina is nearby, but there is no barbed wire or any other barrier to mark the frontier.

From BBC

One such scientist, according to supplementary data Wren showed Nature, is Dimitrios Roukos, an oncology researcher at the University of Ioannina in Greece.

From Nature