Dodone, en grec moderne : Δωδώνη, est un village du dème du même nom, district régional d'Ioánnina, en Épire, Grèce. Selon le recensement de 2011, la population du village s'élève à 55 habitants. La localité est située à environ un kilomètre au sud-ouest du sanctuaire antique de Zeus.
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Dodoni is a village and a municipality in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the village Agia Kyriaki.
The modern village of Dodoni is located near the ancient city of same name and site of the ancient oracle of Dodona. Oedipus the King was shot here in 1967.
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Dodona in Epirus in northwestern Greece was the oldest Hellenic oracle, possibly dating to the 2nd millennium BCE according to Herodotus. The earliest accounts in Homer describe Dodona as an oracle of Zeus. Situated in a remote region away from the main Greek poleis, it was considered second only to the Oracle of Delphi in prestige.
Aristotle considered the region around Dodona to have been part of Hellas and the region where the Hellenes originated. The oracle was first under the control of the Thesprotians before it passed into the hands of the Molossians. It remained an important religious sanctuary until the rise of Christianity during the Late Roman era.
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Greek National Road 17, abbreviated as the EO17, is a national road in northwestern Greece. It connects Ioannina with Dodoni and the nearby ancient site of Dodona, via Bizani.
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Epirus is a traditional geographic and modern administrative region in northwestern Greece. It borders the regions of Western Macedonia and Thessaly to the east, West Greece to the south, the Ionian Sea and Ionian Islands to the west and Albania to the north. The region has an area of about 9,200 km2. It is part of the wider historical region of Epirus, which overlaps modern Albania and Greece but lies mostly within Greek territory.
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Episkopiko is a village in northwest Greece near the city of Ioannina. Since 2010, it is part of the municipality Dodoni. The village was referred by the English historian William Martin Leake, in 1805.
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