User:Iliana Milioni/Gribovo (Ioannina)

Coordinates: 39°40′2.2″N 20°32′59.7″E﻿ / ﻿39.667278°N 20.549917°E﻿ / 39.667278; 20.549917°E Gribovo is a semi-mountain Epirus' village at Ioannina (regional unit).

Geographical and History Data
Gribovo is located on the border with the Regional Unit of Thesprotia at the highest point of a hill range between two gorges at an altitude of 212 meters. It is 37 km away. W. from the city of Ioannina and 31 km. W.-SW. from Eleousa (seat of the municipality). North of the village passes the river Kalamas (Thyamis) while south the National Road Ioannina - Igoumenitsa. Its name, according to one view, comes from the Vlach word kaboura, yvos and means area – settlement located on a hilltop and is related to the toponym Gribovo Arta, which is built at the foot of a rocky bare hill range. According to a second view, from the Slavic word гриб (grib), i.e. mushroom and means location where mushrooms thrive.

Administrative-population data
It is officially mentioned after the liberation of Epirus in 1919 in Government Gazette 184A - 19/08/1919 to designate the seat of the homonymous community. According to the Kallikratis plan, together with Seltsana they constitute the local community of Gribovo of the municipal unit Molossoi, which belongs to the municipality of Zitsa and according to the 2011 census as a community 99 inhabitants are enumerated while as a settlement 82. The actual population censuses (de facto) after World War II are: