Kastri, Thesprotia

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|periph = Epirus

|periphunit = Thesprotia

|municipality = Igoumenitsa

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|population = 664

|population_as_of = 2021

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Kastri ({{langx|el|Καστρί or Καστρίον}}, Kastríon; {{langx|sq|Kastriot}}) is a town in Thesprotia, Epirus, Greece.{{cite web|url=http://www.maplandia.com/greece/ipiros/thesprotia/kastrion/|title=Location of Kastri|access-date=2 May 2010}}{{cite book|last=Ahmedaja|first=Ardian|author2=Gerlinde Haid|title=European voices: Multipart singing in the Balkans and the Mediterranean|publisher=Böhlau Verlag Wien|year=2008|series=European Voices|volume=1|pages=243|isbn=978-3-205-78090-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Iga91qAoeDYC&q=kastriot}} The local church is dedicated to Saint George.

Kastri is mainly inhabited by Greek residents, while the presence of an Orthodox Albanian-speaking community has been vivid throughout the past century.{{cite book|title=Ethnologia Balkanica|publisher=LIT Verlag Münster|year=2002|pages=179|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ebpDLhkVWcC&q=Kastri+Thesprotia+Albanians&pg=PA179 }} During the Axis occupation of Greece, 18 residents of Kastri were executed by German forces and local Cham Albanian collaborators.Έκθεσις των γενομένων ζημιών εν γένει Ηπείρου από της κηρύξεως του Ελληνο-ιταλικού πολέμου (28-10-40) μέχρι της τελικής απελευθερώσεώς της, Οκτώβριος 1944, Βιβλιοθήκη Ηπειρωτικής Εταιρείας Αθηνών, Αθήνα 1987, σ. 136 και 140.

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