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Kastri, Thesprotia

Field	Value
name	Kastri
name_local	Καστρί
type	community
periph	Epirus
periphunit	Thesprotia
municipality	Igoumenitsa
municunit	Igoumenitsa
population	664
population_as_of	2021
coordinates
licence	ΗΝ

Kastri (, Kastríon; ) is a town in Thesprotia, Epirus, Greece. 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. During the Axis occupation of Greece, 18 residents of Kastri were executed by German forces and local Cham Albanian collaborators.

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References

"Location of Kastri".
Ahmedaja, Ardian. (2008). "European voices: Multipart singing in the Balkans and the Mediterranean". Böhlau Verlag Wien.
(2002). "Ethnologia Balkanica". LIT Verlag Münster.
''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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