Ano Pogoni
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|periph = Epirus
|periphunit = Ioannina
|municipality = Pogoni
|population = 1067
|population_as_of = 2021
|area = 137.084
|elevation = 650
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|postal_code = 440 06
|area_code = 26570
|licence = ΙΝ
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Ano Pogoni ({{langx|el|Άνω Πωγώνι}}) is a former municipality in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pogoni, of which it is a municipal unit.{{Cite web|url=http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGYK2xFpSwMnXdtvSoClrL81-32jgAMSfbnMRVjyfnPUeJInJ48_97uHrMts-zFzeyCiBSQOpYnT00MHhcXFRTsb2fGphpq4MKX2ZkaHobySNnvZCNHXvYVvlf80XevW0Q.|title=ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities|language=el|publisher=Government Gazette}} The municipal unit has an area of 137.084 km2.{{cite web|url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |publisher=National Statistical Service of Greece |title=Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation) |language=el |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921212047/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-21 }} The seat of the municipality was in Kefalovryso.
Subdivisions
The municipal unit Ano Pogoni is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets):
- Agios Kosmas
- Kakolakkos
- Kato Meropi
- Kefalovryso
- Meropi (formerly Roumpates){{cite web |url=http://pandektis.ekt.gr/dspace/handle/10442/172406|title=Πανδέκτης: Roumpátes -- Merópi|access-date=2019-10-03}} Pandektis: Name Changes of Settlements in Greece, compiled by the [http://www.eie.gr/nhrf/institutes/inr/index-en.html Institute for Neohellenic Research]
- Oraiokastro
- Palaiopyrgos
- Roupsia
- Vasiliko
Population
Names
The name Ano Pogoni means "Upper Pogoni". Some Albanian toponyms exist for names of villages in the Pogoni area such as Roumpates meaning robe or garment.{{cite book|last=Ifantis|first=Nikos Th.|title=Η Πωγωνιανή - Παλιά Βοστίνα και τα Κοινοτικά Διαμερίσματα Δολό-Δρυμάδες-Σταυροσκιάδι|year=2005|publisher=Διευρυμένη Κοινότητα Πωγωνιανής|pages=45}} "όπως και από αλβανικές ονομασίες χωριών: Ρομπάτες (= ρόμπα, ένδυμα), Δελβινακίων (= αμπελότοπος), Γούβερη (Γούβα - Κοίλωμα) κ.λ.π."
History
During the Balkan Wars (autumn 1912) a number of villages in the area were affected by raids of Muslim bands.{{cite journal|last1=Tsoutsoumpis|first1=Spyros|title=Violence, resistance and collaboration in a Greek borderland: the case of the Muslim Chams of Epirus "Qualestoria" n. 2, dicembre 2015|journal=Qualestoria|date=December 2015|pages=119–138|url=https://www.academia.edu/24269752|access-date=14 June 2016}} At the end of the Balkan Wars most of the Pogoni area became part Greece, while six villages (Lower Pogoni) were ceded to the newly established Principality of Albania.
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