Vovousa
Vovousa is a village and a former community in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Zagori, of which it is a municipal unit.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Αχρήστης, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 179 residents
- Description: village in Ioannina, Greece
- Postal code: 44014
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pindus National Park.
Pindus National Park
Nature reserve
Photo: Karayan74, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pindus National Park, also known as Valia Calda, is a national park in mainland Greece, situated in an isolated mountainous area at the periphery of West Macedonia and Epirus, in the northeastern part of the Pindus mountain range. Pindus National Park is situated 3½ km southwest of Vovousa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Perivoli and Laista.
Perivoli
Village
Photo: Hectorian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Perivoli is a mountain village and a former community in Grevena regional unit, West Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Grevena, of which it is a municipal unit. Perivoli is situated 7 km northeast of Vovousa.
Laista
Village
Laista is a settlement in Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. The village located in the northern part of the Zagori region. Laista is situated 9 km northwest of Vovousa.
Elatochori
Village
Elatochori is a village and a community of the Zagori municipality, northwestern Greece. Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of East Zagori, of which it was a municipal district. Elatochori is situated 9 km southwest of Vovousa.
Vovousa
- Category: locality
- Location: Zagori, Ioannina, Epirus, Northern Greece, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
39.93778° or 39° 56′ 16″ northLongitude
21.04985° or 21° 2′ 60″ eastPopulation
179Elevation
971 metres (3,186 feet)Open location code
8GF3W2QX+4WOpenStreetMap ID
node 139286415OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
251691Wikidata ID
Q3012675
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Turkish—“Vovousa” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Vuvuca”
- Bulgarian: “Баяса”
- Bulgarian: “Бъяса”
- Bulgarian: “Вовуса”
- Cebuano: “Vovoúsa”
- Chinese: “沃武萨”
- Dutch: “Vovousa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ڤوڤوسا”
- Finnish: “Vovoúsa”
- French: “Vovoúsa”
- German: “Vovousa”
- Greek: “Βοβούσα Ιωαννίνων”
- Greek: “Βοβούσα”
- Greek: “Βωβούσα”
- Greek: “Μπαϊεάσα” (historical)
- Italian: “Vovousa”
- Italian: “Vovoussa”
- Italian: “Wovussa”
- Japanese: “ヴォヴサ”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Bãeasã”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Baiesa”
- Macedonian: “Бајаса”
- Macedonian: “Бајеса”
- Macedonian: “Вовуса”
- Macedonian: “Војуша”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vovoúsa”
- Russian: “Вовуса”
- Swedish: “Vovoúsa”
- Turkish: “Vovousa”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Παλιομονάστηρο and Παλαιά Πινακίδα.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St. George’s Church and Πλατεία Βοβούσας.
Epirus: Must-Visit Destinations
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Vovousa”. Photo: Αχρήστης, CC BY-SA 3.0.