Kleidonia () is a village and a community in the municipality of

Konitsa Konitsa (, see also Konitsa#Name, names in other languages) is a town of Ioannina (regional unit), Ioannina in Epirus (region), Epirus, Greece. It is located north of the capital Ioannina and near the Albanian Border crossings of Albania, border. ...

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. The community includes the village Kalyvia. The

Greek National Road 20 National Road 20 (, abbreviated as EO20) is a single carriageway road in northwestern Greece. It links the cities of Ioannina and Kozani via Konitsa and Siatista. It passes through the Ioannina (regional unit), Ioannina, Kastoria (regional unit), ...

(

Ioannina Ioannina ( ' ), often called Yannena ( ' ) within Greece, is the capital and largest city of the Ioannina (regional unit), Ioannina regional unit and of Epirus (region), Epirus, an Modern regions of Greece, administrative region in northwester ...

- Konitsa -

Kozani Kozani (, ) is a town in northern Greece, capital of Kozani (regional unit), Kozani regional unit and of Western Macedonia. It is located in the western part of Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia, in the northern part of the Aliakmonas, Aliakmonas riv ...

) passes through Kalyvia. It is situated on the right bank of the river

Voidomatis The Voidomatis () is a river in the Ioannina regional unit in northwestern Greece, and is a tributary of the Aoös river. General description The main current sources are located in the village of Vikos. Along its path it converges with oth ...

, a tributary of the

Aoos The Vjosa (; indefinite form: ) or Aoös () is a river in northwestern Greece and southwestern Albania. Its total length is about , of which the first are in Greece, and the remaining in Albania. Its drainage basin is and its average dischar ...

Population

History

Two prehistoric locations have been found near Kleidonia: * Kleidi Cave * Megalakkos Cave In these two caves there are archaeological remains that date back to 20,000 and 12,000 years ago, in the later period of the

Paleolithic Era The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic ( years ago) ( ), also called the Old Stone Age (), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehist ...

in Greece.

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{{Konitsa div Populated places in Ioannina (regional unit) Konitsa

Population

History

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