Bizani

Bizani (Greek: Μπιζάνι) is a village and a former municipality in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece.

The municipal unit is situated in the plains and low hills south and southwest of Ioannina.

The Greek National Road 5 (Ioannina - Arta), the Greek National Road 17 (Ioannina - Dodoni) and the A2 Egnatia Odos motorway (Igoumenitsa - Ioannina - Thessaloniki) pass through the municipal unit.

The municipalunit Bizani is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): The village and former municipality, gets its name from the nearby fort built by the Ottoman Empire which in turn may have been inspired by the nearby mountain range.

Fort Bezhani, as referenced by some groups like the US Congress Committee on Military Affairs,[5] is known in Greek as "Bizani"[6] (also Fort Bijan[7]) was the location of the Battle of Bizani that took place in February 1913 as part of the Balkan Wars as the last stronghold for Ioannina and the remainder of Epirus before ending almost five centuries of Ottoman Turkish rule.