Voio (municipality)
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|periphunit = Kozani
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Voio ({{langx|el|Βόιο}}) is a municipality in the Kozani regional unit, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Siatista.{{Cite web|url=http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGYK2xFpSwMnXdtvSoClrL8-SrPzKAEPjjtIl9LGdkF53UIxsx942CdyqxSQYNuqAGCF0IfB9HI6hq6ZkZV96FIukI0UzcPsWCK0LpLhpa7rhiWB4R5ntTnoWw7U8E1Amg.|title=ΦΕΚ A 87/2010, Kallikratis reform law text|language=el|publisher=Government Gazette}} It was named after the Voio mountains. The municipality has an area of 1007.629 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}} Its population at the 2021 census was 14,947.
Name
In the mid 1990s, Upper (Ano) and Lower (Kato) Voio, derived from Mount Voios were geographic terms spread by the Research Association of Ano Voios for use to describe the wider region. Another name Kastanochoria, referring to an abundance of local chestnut trees, also signified villages which received no Greek refugee populations following the Greek–Turkish population exchange. The Ottoman era name Anaselitsa, derived from a local village Seltsa (modern Eratyra) was used until the late 1920s for the wider area when official geographic name changes made it obsolete.{{cite journal|last1=Kyratsou|first1=Chrysi|last2=Sotiraki|first2=Katerina|last3=Brkljačic|first3=Marko|last4=Prezotto|first4=Joseane|title='Naming the Baby': Music and boundary identities in Zoupanokhoria|url=https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/aeer/article/view/32057|journal=Anthropology of East Europe Review|volume=38|issue=1|year=2021|page=97|doi=}}
Municipality
Province
The province of Voio ({{langx|el|Επαρχία Βοΐου}}) was one of the provinces of the Kozani Prefecture. Its territory corresponded with that of the current municipality Voio.{{cite web|url= http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00086.pdf |title=Detailed census results 1991 }} {{small|(39 MB)}} {{in lang|el|fr}} It was abolished in 2006.
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Category:Municipalities of Western Macedonia
Category:Populated places in Kozani (regional unit)
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