Katavothra

{{Expand Greek|topic=geo|Καταβόθρα Θεσπρωτίας|date=January 2019}}

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|periph = Epirus

|periphunit = Thesprotia

|municipality = Igoumenitsa

|municunit = Margariti

|population = 192

|population_as_of = 2021

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Katavothra ({{langx|el|Καταβόθρα}}, {{langx|sq|Luarat}}) is a village in Thesprotia, Epirus, Greece.{{cite web|url=http://www.maplandia.com/greece/ipiros/thesprotia/katavothra/|title=Location of Katavothra|accessdate=2 May 2010}}{{cite book|last=Naska|first=Kaliopi|title=Dokumente për Çamërinë: 1912-1939|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2P-4AAAAIAAJ&q=Lugarat|year=1999|publisher=Dituria|isbn=99927-31-69-9|page=737}}

Until the end of World War II it was mainly inhabited by a Cham Albanian community.{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}} During the Interwar period the gendarmerie of Preveza under colonel Stavrakakis often sent notifications to the High Administration of Epirus concerning the activities of the Albanian mayor of the town Daut Buza, which the gendarmerie labeled as anti-national.{{cite book|last=Promitze|first=Christian|title=History and culture of South Eastern Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qilpAAAAMAAJ&q=Daut+Buza|year=2003|publisher=Slavica Verlag}} The semi-demolished minaret of the mosque of present-day Katavothra is one of the very few which still stood after World War II in the region.{{cite book |last1=Tsitselikis |first1=Konstantinos |title=Old and New Islam in Greece: From Historical Minorities to Immigrant Newcomers |date=2012 |publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |isbn=978-9004221529 |page=364 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FdqRdctzEXcC&pg=PA364}}